"Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition.……" — Noam Chomsky
"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."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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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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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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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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More Autocratic Quotes
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Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the…
— Guy Kawasaki
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An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I…
— Albert Einstein
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Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is…
— Michael Parenti
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I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom…
— Liu Xia
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A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to…
— Irshad Manji
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Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of…
— Calvin Coolidge
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control…
— Maggie Gallagher
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A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the…
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
— Alastair Reynolds
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Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation…
— Noam Chomsky
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The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding…
— Thurman Arnold
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