The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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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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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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