Tag: Noam Chomsky
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If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
Noam Chomsky
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The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.
Noam Chomsky
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People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You’re a traitor.
Noam Chomsky
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The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
Noam Chomsky
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam Chomsky
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In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.
Noam Chomsky
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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky
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In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.
Noam Chomsky
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The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.
Noam Chomsky
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There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.
Noam Chomsky