Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
NOAM CHOMSKYDissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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