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Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
- The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
- The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
- The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
- The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
- The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
- The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
- The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
- 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 another.
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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