Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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