Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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In 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.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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That’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.’
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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