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?
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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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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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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