Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
NOAM CHOMSKYLanguage 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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 European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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