That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhat happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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