Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
NOAM CHOMSKYI do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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 don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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