Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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