It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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