While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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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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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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 invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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