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 CHOMSKYThere’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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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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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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