There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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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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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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