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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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 U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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