The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
NOAM CHOMSKYSometimes I lose my temper.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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