American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -
I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.
Noam Chomsky
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I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.
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It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.
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I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.
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Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
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Governments don't control people like they used to.
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I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
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I don't like the intellectual label.
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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 declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
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Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
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Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
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