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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf 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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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 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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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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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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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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