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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More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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