States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions." Avram Chomsky
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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. - Avram Chomsky Quotes

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Avram Chomsky

 American Activist Expression
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people - Avram Chomsky Quotes

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people

Avram Chomsky

 Control
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. - Avram Chomsky Quotes

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Avram Chomsky

 American Activist Democracy
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. - Avram Chomsky Quotes

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

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 American Activist Discontent
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. - Avram Chomsky Quotes

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.

Avram Chomsky

 Control
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. - Avram Chomsky Quotes

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Avram Chomsky

 Action American Activist
The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains. - Avram Chomsky Quotes

The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

Avram Chomsky

 Country
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. - Avram Chomsky Quotes

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Avram Chomsky

 American Activist
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. - Avram Chomsky Quotes

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Avram Chomsky

 American Activist Creation
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history - Avram Chomsky Quotes

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history

Avram Chomsky

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