Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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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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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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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