All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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