Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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