To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.Noam Chomsky
Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.Noam Chomsky
If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.Noam Chomsky
The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.Noam Chomsky
In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone.Richard Feynman
Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.Richard Feynman
The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work.Richard Feynman
