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.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut 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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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.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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