The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
NOAM CHOMSKYI would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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It 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.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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