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.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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