Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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