Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
NOAM CHOMSKYRemember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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