States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standard…

Noam Chomsky
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. ✨ Noam Chomsky (2002). The Umbrella of U.S. Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy, p.42, Seven Stories Press
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. ✨ Noam Chomsky (2002). The Umbrella of U.S. Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy, p.42, Seven Stories Press

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