I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
NOAM CHOMSKYSometimes I lose my temper.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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