You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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