If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhile the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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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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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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