A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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 public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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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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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.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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