Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
NOAM CHOMSKYRemember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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