If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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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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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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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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