All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
NOAM CHOMSKYSometimes I lose my temper.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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