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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It's all been a marvelous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting. It's not like a totalitarian state, where it's done by force. These achievements are under conditions of freedom."

Lying Reality America
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition."

America Democracy Definitions
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to stay with the victims in the hope that their presence would offer some protection and some help. These were not the usual students from elite universities. These were people straight out of middle America."

People America Numbers
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"What is important to us is to reverse the shameful course being pursued by America. It won't be easy, but it must and can be done."

Important America Done
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent, it comes out of mainstream Christianity, based on beliefs that have had outrageous human consequences in the past, and that I think are totally indefensible. In this case, they happen to lead to some of the most courageous, heroic, and honourable human action that's taking place anywhere in the world. Well, that's how life is, I guess. It doesn't come in neat little packages."

Thinking Past America
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"In America, we will use force whenever we like against anyone we regard as a potential threat, and maybe we will delegate that right to clients, but it's not for others."

America Use Clients
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"South America has virtually broken away in the last decade. That's an event of historic significance. South America just doesn't follow US orders. In fact there isn't a single US military base left there."

America Order Military
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"Europe is being subjected to the kinds of programs that devastated Latin America for many years. Latin America has thrown them out and is pulling out: It's successful; it's democratizing; it's economically developing; and it's free from the shrapnel of US imperialism for 25 years. Meanwhile, Western Europe is destroying itself systematically, destroying itself going in the opposite direction."

America Successful Latin
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"Latin America wants to decriminalize at least marijuana (maybe more or course;) the US wants to maintain it. An interesting story. There seems to me no easy way out of this."

America Latin Marijuana
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us] Central America, South Africa, the Middle East, all U.S.-backed terrorism. That's one of the reasons why it disappeared from history and why the standard line is that Bush 43 declared the war on terror. Actually he just repeated what Reagan had said 20 years earlier."

Years War America
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us became Anglo-Saxons."

America Wave Integrated
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired."

America Stronger Germany
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
America

"In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America."

America Rights Latin
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
America

"If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America."

America Firsts Islands
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
America

"I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true."

America Wall Virginia
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
America

"No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all."

Men America Knowing
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
America

"Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so richand varied in its productions, and at the same time so habitable by the European, as this is?"

America States Found
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