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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: 96
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.
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When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.
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Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.
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Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years. Those are things that the public should have known about. In a democracy they should have known what leaders thinking and planning about major enterprises like the Vietnam war. It was kept secret from them.
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There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.
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Palestinians have no wealth or power.
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Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain the instinct for survival, not to speak of minimal concern for their fellow man, will seek ways to act before rather than after the event.
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There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.
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We have to be a little cautious about not trying to kill a gnat with an atom bomb. The performances are so utterly absurd regarding the post-truth moment that the proper response might best be ridicule.
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CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has so sharply escalated in this country in contrast to Europe. (They're similar societies and it's bad enough there, but here we're in the stratosphere. ] There's no particular reason for it.
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Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy.
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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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The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.
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The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.
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Latin America was the most obedient follower of the neoliberal regime that was instituted by the United States, its allies and the international financial institutions. They followed it most rigorously. Almost everyone who's followed those rules, including the Western countries, have suffered. And in Latin America they suffered severely.
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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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I've already supported Bernie Sanders in the primaries.
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