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 CHOMSKYThe leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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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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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.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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