"States are not moral agents." — Noam Chomsky

"States are not moral agents."

— Noam Chomsky

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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky has 588 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel…
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans,…
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound…
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued -…

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An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to… — John Ashcroft
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I… — Jensen Ackles
The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which… — Michele Bachmann
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. — Walter Bagehot
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell… — Henry Adams
Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat… — Roseanne Barr
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
Satan works through human agents. — Ezra Taft Benson
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do… — David Bowie
Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their… — Danny Boyle
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. — David Byrne

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