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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Two 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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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