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Issues Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the US government does in the world…
- Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of…
- There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them
- On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.
- People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of those…
- The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political…
- The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions,…
- You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system…
- The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And…
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