Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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