If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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