The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
NOAM CHOMSKYFor 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.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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.
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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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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