It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
NOAM CHOMSKYI 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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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