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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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