I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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