By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
NOAM CHOMSKYI would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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.
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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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The 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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