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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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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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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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