That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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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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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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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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