In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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