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.’
NOAM CHOMSKYIf we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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