There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
NOAM CHOMSKYMarkets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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 Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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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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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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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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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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