If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
NOAM CHOMSKYThey come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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