In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
NOAM CHOMSKYA tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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