Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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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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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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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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