It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
NOAM CHOMSKYConcentration 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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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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.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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