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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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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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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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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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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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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