France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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 United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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