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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIntellectuals 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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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