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.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhile the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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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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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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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 European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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