They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
NOAM CHOMSKYIntellectuals 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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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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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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 elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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