American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Noam Chomsky
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.'
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe - and it basically assembles them.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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