The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The 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.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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