In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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