There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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