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 CHOMSKYUnlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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