While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
NOAM CHOMSKYAny dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO 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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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