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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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