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These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.
Just media alone is not enough. You have to have organization.
The U.S. is, to a very unusual extent, a business-run society.
In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.
Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.
For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.
My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.
It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence
A lot of countries break (or go against) the international law.
These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.
By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.
No use in waiting, we can all work hard to bring about changes.
The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.
Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.
One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.
Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.
If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out.
It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire.
It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.
I don't entirely agree with the slogan "speaking truth to power."
The U.S. is different from Europe and other industrial countries.
Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.
Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
It's not in doubt that tobacco is far more lethal than hard drugs.
The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.
You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.
I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.
Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.
The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.
The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.
The "end of history" has been proclaimed many times, always falsely.
Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky
Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.
Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge.
South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs.
Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.
The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.
Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.