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> ... one can expect that actions that are cynical and vicious, whatever their intent, will inevitably condition and deface the quality of the ends that are achieved. Now, again, in part this is just a matter of faith. But I think there’s at least some evidence that better results follow from better means.
#NoamChomsky talking with #HannahArendt and #ConnorCruiseOBrien in 1967
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> Besides the Vietnam War, Cruise O'Brien opposed what he saw as the overtly too passive opposition of the U.S. government to the white supremacist governments of #Rhodesia and #SouthAfrica charging that all the reaction the U.S. government ever made was to politely deplore the policies of the two governments.
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#NoamChomsky in 1969 on #LiberalScholarship came to mind while reading parts of the Intercept article about biotechnology and pandemic pathogen research.
> .. we have moved perceptibly towards the state of “a society maimed through the systematic corruption of its intelligence.” He urges that “increased and specific vigilance, not just the elaboration of general principles, is required from the intellectual community toward specific growing dangers to its integrity.” #ConnorCruiseOBrien