There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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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 Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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