It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe childcare tax credit makes some sense.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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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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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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