Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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