You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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