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Noam Chomsky
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society where you're trained to be a ruler - they both can run because they're financed by the same corporate institutions.
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I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.
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The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.
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Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a bad left.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.
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I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his rhetoric.
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You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence.
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Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.
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The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.
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The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.
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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
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If scientists and scholars were to become collectively self-organised and consciously activist today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state and private power. Those who have different goals should (and do) become organized and activist.
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It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.
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There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are responsive to the shareholders, but I why not to the so - called stakeholders, the work force and the community? Nothing in economic theory opposes that. Those are social and political decisions.
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