When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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 teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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