The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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