Noam Chomsky Quotes
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
Chomsky, Noam. Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World. Metropolitan Books, 2005, p. 64.
See Andrew Young for a later expression of this notion. 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Lavrov, familiar with American political history, was criticizing our policy of supporting evil and immoral regimes if they would be supportive of us. This policy with the "son of a bitch" description was used by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. See {637777}.
This was a satiric attack on Republicans of 2012 who tended to see drug addiction as a moral failure but were very silent when Rush Limbaugh, the ultra-conservative radio talk show host turned out to be a drug addict. Limbaugh was one of the most influential Republicans of that era. The hypocrisy was that Limbaugh, along with many other conservatives, had been preaching for years, that drug addiction was not a medical condition, like other illnesses, but was a condition brought about by a moral failure of the addict.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
