You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKYTwo days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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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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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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 intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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.
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