The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
NOAM CHOMSKYI would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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