If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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