Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
NOAM CHOMSKYNationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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