American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -
Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
Noam Chomsky
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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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As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.
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The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
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Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.
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I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
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The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.
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Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.
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Control is the source of strategic power.
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