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.
NOAM CHOMSKYI stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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