You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn 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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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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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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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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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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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 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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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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