The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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