If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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