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One Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but…
- The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
- The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one…
- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
- For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite…
- We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and…
- If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live…
- For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.
- The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want…
- One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average…
- One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown…
- There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's…
- Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will…
- 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…
- One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its boot on your…
- One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.
- As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t…
- Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
- Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That’s…
- The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.
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