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Noam Chomsky
“NC: You’re right, but I think it tells you something very interesting about Western culture. When they went to the concentration camps and were appalled, they did not say, “Let’s save the survivors”; they said, “Let someone else pay for saving the survivors.” IP: Exactly.”
Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

“So will they only sell their exploits to good Western governments?” He repeated my words back to me. “Good Western governments?” I slumped so low in my seat, I was sure my head wasn’t even showing. The words were even more humiliating coming out of an Argentine’s mouth.”
Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

Yanis Varoufakis
“But as John Stuart Mill, a British philosopher and political economist, warned us in 1863, “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, that is because they know only their side of the story.”
Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

Paul Farmer
“Endeavors focused on AIDS, though crucial, must be linked to efforts to empower poor women. The much-abused term “empower” is not meant vaguely here; empowerment is not a matter of self-esteem or even of parliamentary representation. Those choosing to make common cause with poor women must help them gain control over their own lives. Control of lives is related to control of land, systems of production, and the formal political and legal structures in which lives are enmeshed. In each of these arenas, poor people overall are already laboring at a vast disadvantage; the voices of poor women in particular are almost unheard.”
Paul Farmer, Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

Noam Chomsky
“NC: You’re right, but I think it tells you something very interesting about Western culture. When they went to the concentration camps and were appalled, they did not say, “Let’s save the survivors”; they said, “Let someone else pay for saving the survivors.” IP: Exactly. NC: This tells you something about the West, the deeply rooted imperial mentality that affects the West like a plague. Yes, there are these people living in misery. We are the ones able to help them, but we are not going to even raise that possibility. Somebody else, who does not have the capacity, they have to suffer for it.”
Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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