Firsts Quotes by Noam Chomsky

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

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Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

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The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had…

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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…

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Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

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The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but…

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The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize…

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Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history…

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It's a class war, and a war on young people too... that's why tuition is rising so rapidly. There's no real economic…

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In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe…

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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…

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I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that…

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The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So…

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In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much…

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There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on…

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In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide…

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The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer…

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Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to…

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I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary…

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There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law…

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The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the…

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The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as…

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Remember that in any major nuclear war, the first strike destroys the country that attacks; it's been known for years. The first…

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One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed…

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The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to…

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The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct…

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If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The…

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There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules…

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Actually, my first article, it wasn't about the anarchists; it was about the fall of Barcelona and the spread of fascism over…

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Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for…

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...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what…

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The Iraq War is the first war in history, in which there were huge demonstrations before the war was launched, not beginning…

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So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising…

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It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they…

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Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the…

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It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent…

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That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called…

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United States has comparative advantage in military force. It tends to react to anything at first with military force, that's what it's…

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No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying,…

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The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very…

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