I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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