When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
NOAM CHOMSKYThey 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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