If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
NOAM CHOMSKYAll over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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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