That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYImmediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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