The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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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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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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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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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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