If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
NOAM CHOMSKYDissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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