Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
NOAM CHOMSKYNicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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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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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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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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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