The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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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’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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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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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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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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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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