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Noam Chomsky

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Conversation Doctrine Either Every New Repeat Same Say Something Time
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Concentration Employment High Increase Legislation Political Power Rise Wealth Yield
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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Against Course International Offer Predatory Regie Some State Strike Weak
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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Another Fear Hate People Policy Publically Shape
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Absolute Credential Literally Professional Teach Truth
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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Conduct Contempt Evasion Matter Maze Normal Point Political Standard
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Category Country Mechanic Professor Same Talk
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Choice Country Impse Invade Regime Stability
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Achievement Advertisement Amount Come Dynamic Entrepreneur Initiative Profit Sector Socialize Cause State Tremendous Want
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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Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Essential Existence Freedom Human Idea Phase Possible Survival Value
If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Argue Like Say Someone
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Basically Business Democrat Function One Party Republican
International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Affair International Mafia Much Run
The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Almost Episode Insane Truth Whole
So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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Example Form Guy Imagine Individual Inherently Nicest Participate Slavery Tyranny

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