I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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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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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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