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" There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11. "
Noam Chomsky
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Been
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Only
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" If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces. "
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Shaped
Creatures
" Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment. "
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Only
Ignoring
Environment
" If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health. "
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" September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That's all to the good. "
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World
Pay
Better
" Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. "
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He
About
Favor
" The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming. "
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Argument
Resistance
Seems
" Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. "
Noam Chomsky
Admire
Obedience
Media
" The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media. "
Noam Chomsky
System
Through
Media
" The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. "
Noam Chomsky
Information
Government
Need
" Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first. "
Noam Chomsky
Over
Economic
Egypt
" Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. "
Noam Chomsky
Folk
Forth
Real
" Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin. "
Noam Chomsky
Possible
Communist
Pretty
" 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. "
Noam Chomsky
Nature
History
Human Nature
" Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. "
Noam Chomsky
Language
Politicians
Human
" There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. "
Noam Chomsky
Policy
Opinion
Gap
" If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program. "
Noam Chomsky
You
Fact
Health
" If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to war. "
Noam Chomsky
Go
You
War
" All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. "
Noam Chomsky
Pressure
Decisions
Culture
" 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
Country
Moving
Technology
" Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. "
Noam Chomsky
Green
Ideas
Sleep
" Obama, of course, outspent McCain. "
Noam Chomsky
Course
Obama
McCain
" Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. "
Noam Chomsky
Human Nature
Human
Just
" Palestinians have no wealth or power. "
Noam Chomsky
Power
Palestinians
Wealth
" 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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Pay
True
Taxes
" The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies. "
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America
Had
Economic
" I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can't explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something? "
Noam Chomsky
Think
Human Being
Turn
" In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. "
Noam Chomsky
Students
Labor
Cheap
" I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors. "
Noam Chomsky
Intellectual
Working
People
" The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws. "
Noam Chomsky
Flaws
Overcome
Work