In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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