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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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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 public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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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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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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?
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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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