Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’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.’
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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There’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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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