Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
NOAM CHOMSKYI 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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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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