By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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