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.
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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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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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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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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