That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYNineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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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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