Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
NOAM CHOMSKYEducation 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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