The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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