It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
NOAM CHOMSKYI 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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?
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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