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.
NOAM CHOMSKYLibertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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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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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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