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Noam Chomsky: Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5675


Noam Chomsky: It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5676



Noam Chomsky: A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5678



Noam Chomsky: The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5679



Noam Chomsky: The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5681




Noam Chomsky: Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5684




Noam Chomsky: Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5686


Noam Chomsky: Neoliberal 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. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5687


Noam Chomsky: Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5688



Noam Chomsky: For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5689

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Karl Marx: In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5690


Saramago: Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5691


Karl Marx: Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5692




Karl Marx: Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5694




Karl Marx: The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance. The individuals composing the ruling class possess among other things consciousness, and therefore think. Insofar, therefore, as they rule as a class and determine the extent and compass of an epoch, it is self-evident that they do this in its whole range, hence among other things rule also as thinkers, as producers of ideas, and regulate the production and distribution of the ideas of their age: thus their ideas are the ruling ideas of the epoch. For instance, in an age and in a country where royal power, aristocracy, and bourgeoisie are contending for mastery and where, therefore, mastery is shared, the doctrine of the separation of powers proves to be the dominant idea and is expressed as an "eternal law." https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5697



Karl Marx: The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5698


Karl Marx: Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5699



Saramago: People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it’s only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5701


Saramago: What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5702





Saramago: I’m not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5705


Saramago: God, the devil, good, evil, it’s all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5706