I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Education 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.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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