You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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