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.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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