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Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky
Age: 95
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential threats - the threats to the termination of the species basically and most other species - one of them, climate change, on that I think there's no basis for discussion.
Noam Chomsky
There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because they're always denied.
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I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.
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The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else in the face, and let your grandchildren pay for it. That simple principle predicts almost everything that's happening.
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South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs.
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Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made.
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Industrial production of meat makes a huge contribution to global warming.
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Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?
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I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.
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I'm sorry to say it has some historical analogs. It's kind of reminiscent of what happened in Germany in the late Weimar years.
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We have to recognize that there is a range of interests, like there isn't a single corporate interest and a single state interest, so there's a range. In addition to that, there is the fact of professional integrity.
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You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.
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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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You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.
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If you have worker-owned and worker-managed enterprises, you've got a different sociopolitical system.
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
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Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice.
Noam Chomsky
Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system.
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It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.
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It doesn't matter how much you learn in school it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself. And that can be done at any level.
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