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.
NOAM CHOMSKYI like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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