In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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