If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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 elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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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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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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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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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.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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