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 CHOMSKYIf you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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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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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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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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