But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
NOAM CHOMSKYEither you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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