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.
NOAM CHOMSKYLanguage is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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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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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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