If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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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 United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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