That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYI do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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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.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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