The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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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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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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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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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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