Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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