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?
NOAM CHOMSKYIn America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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 the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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