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- If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to…
- The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven…
- The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the…
- What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.
- Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to…
- The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant…
- Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules…
- September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the US government does in the world…
- There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a…
- As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is…
- Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people…
- Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active…
- Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free…
- Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing…
- To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of…
- The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the…
- The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions,…
- My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to…
- French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go…
- Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
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