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More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive from their heads evil ideas, such as the belief that wage labor was not much

More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive from their heads evil ideas, such as the belief that wage labor was not much different from chattel slavery. That continues to the present, now sometimes taking the form of an attack on public education.

Noam Chomsky
Independent, Ideas, Evil
Source: www.publicanthropology.org

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

Noam Chomsky
Evil, Use, Facts
Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils.

Noam Chomsky
Thinking, Evil, Justice
"Essays ('Six: Interview with Noam Chomsky, 2004')". Book by Wallace Shawn, 2009.

If you want to scare people, you talk about evil.

Noam Chomsky
People, Evil, Nihilism
Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei Masakazu (2015). “Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force”, p.128, Routledge

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

Noam Chomsky
War, Evil, Survival
Noam Chomsky (2008). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.378, The New Press

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