Noam Chomsky | imagination
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Noam Chomsky | history
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
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Noam Chomsky | history
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Noam Chomsky | great
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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Noam Chomsky | government
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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Noam Chomsky | government
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that’s international terror, and we can go on and on.
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Noam Chomsky | government
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
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Noam Chomsky | freedom
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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Noam Chomsky | freedom
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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