International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
NOAM CHOMSKYNicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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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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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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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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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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