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Century Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph…
- Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but…
- The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great…
- The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.
- The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of…
- My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone…
- If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
- You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.
- Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance…
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- As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs… — Cleveland Abbe
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