In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhen you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for 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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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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