No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt 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 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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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