You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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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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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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