For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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