Saturday, December 21, 2013

Chomsky: Power Used Wisely

(Image Credit: Duncan Rawlinson)





It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.

--Noam Chomsky, from a talk given at Tufts University in 2001








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