If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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 truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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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 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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