In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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