The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
NOAM CHOMSKYSometimes I lose my temper.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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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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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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