You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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