Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhat happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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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.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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 leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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