The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
NOAM CHOMSKYEither you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhat happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
NOAM CHOMSKYThey 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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhile the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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