If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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