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No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky
Age: 95
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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.
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It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to protect their turf and to resist challenge.
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There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered the study of Anglo-Saxon Law. And that myth of Anglo-Saxonism carries right over into the early twentieth century.
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Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.
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If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.
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There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.
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They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.
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The U.S. is, to a very unusual extent, a business-run society.
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You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders.
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Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to regiment the public mind, and become tools and tyrants of government, in James Madison's memorable phrase, as he warned of the threats he discerned to the democratic experiment if private powers were granted free rein.
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I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals who are respected and privileged to be those who subordinate themselves to power.
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Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both India and Pakistan. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces. This is feeding right back into society even in the domain of elementary civil rights.
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Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation).
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There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
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The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.
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A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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