While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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