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System Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that…
- I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
- The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised…
- It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.
- Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to…
- Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that…
- Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
- Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by…
- Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well,…
- 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…
- By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every…
- Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules…
- The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including…
- The whole educational and professional training system...
- Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools…
- Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind…
- There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word…
- Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
- Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are…
- The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.
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