Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhat happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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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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There’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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