"Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern……" — Noam Chomsky
"Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky has 588 quotes on this site.
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel…
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In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans,…
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound…
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued -…
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the…
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we,…
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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
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But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the…
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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new…
— Tony Blair
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain,…
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I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
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The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers…
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Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of…
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Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's…
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