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.
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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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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