But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
NOAM CHOMSKYCivil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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