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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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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’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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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