If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
NOAM CHOMSKYOur only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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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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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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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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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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