Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
NOAM CHOMSKYSo slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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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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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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