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Avram Noam Chomsky (born 7 December 1928) is an American linguist, analytical philosopher, cognitive scientist, political analyst, human rights activist and anarcho-socialist.
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It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state.
As the most powerful state, the U.S. makes its own laws, using force and conducting economic warfare at will.
Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy.
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.
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a "war against terrorism."
What I find terrifying is the detachment and equanimity with which we view and discuss an unbearable tragedy.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.
The information they get comes from ideological fanatics, typically, who always misunderstand things in their own crazy way.
If you can think of nothing that wouldn't do harm, then do nothing.
But you can also pay attention to the reality of the world.
I consider it immoral to be a supporter of a power system.
If you look into the history of what is called the CIA, which means the US White House, its secret wars, clandestine warfare, the trail of drug production just follows.
"Tough love" is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.
I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.
Washington's furious assault on a poor peasant society had little to do with its wars in the region.
Clinton shipped new helicopters to Israel as soon as they started using them against civilians.
The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.
Nobody is ever involved in an aggressive war; it's always a defensive war -- on both sides.
Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
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