Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
Noam ChomskyBut on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.
Noam ChomskyNeoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.
Noam ChomskyIf a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.
Noam ChomskyIn fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.
Noam ChomskyTo construct a scientific theory from the data and to be able to recognize that it is a reasonable theory is possible only if there are some very sharp restrictive principles that lead you to go in one direction and not in another direction. Otherwise, you wouldn't have science at all, merely randomly chosen hypotheses.
Noam Chomsky