Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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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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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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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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