You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKYAny dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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