It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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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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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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