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Thought Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
- From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual…
- Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic…
- But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public…
- 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…
- There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit information, but it…
- 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…
- I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
- The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in…
- It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need…
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