In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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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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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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