Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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If 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.
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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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