But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhen you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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 United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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