Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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