I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhile the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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