The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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