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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. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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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

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Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ↗

— John Updike

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