Occupation: Linguist Birth: December 7, 1928
A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think they are right, that they are not bein….
[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and economic context in….
This would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East. The actual Chemical Weapons Con….
There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also ….
If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it..
I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptica….
If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged in an effort,"to bring the truth ab….
Hillary Clinton was the one pressing the hardest for bombing, and look at what happened. They not only destroyed the country, but Libya has become th….
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. ….
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompa….
Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress ….
The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every form of aut….
I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief. On the othe….
All media depend on advertisement to survive..
In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that p….
If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yoursel….
There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people..
Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?.
I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable..
The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their ….
Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market..