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 CHOMSKYI 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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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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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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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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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