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.
NOAM CHOMSKYDissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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