It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
NOAM CHOMSKYI would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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