Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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 elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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