Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
NOAM CHOMSKYRational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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 very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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