Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt 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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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.
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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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