The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
NOAM CHOMSKYLibertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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 elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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