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.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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