I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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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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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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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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