I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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