The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
NOAM CHOMSKYAny dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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