By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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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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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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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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