Noam Chomsky Quotes

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Noam Chomsky

Profession : Activist

Birth : December 7, 1928

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

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I don't want followers.

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Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

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States are not moral agents.

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There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

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I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

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When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

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Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

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State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

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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.

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In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

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My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

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I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.

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If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.

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It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

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Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.

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When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.

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As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

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If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

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