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.
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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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There’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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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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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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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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