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?
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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