But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
NOAM CHOMSKYChanges and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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They 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.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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