It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
NOAM CHOMSKYAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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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 godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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