In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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 all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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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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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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