When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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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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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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 leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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