If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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