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.
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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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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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