The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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I 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?
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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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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.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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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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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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