Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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 public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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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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