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.
NOAM CHOMSKYDissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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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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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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