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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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 United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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 very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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