David

“The business of voting your conscience is: Do you really care just about how you feel? or, Do you care about what happens to the world? If you care about what you feel you don't have any conscience, you're not a moral agent at all, so stop talking about conscience, you don't have any.”
― Noam Chomsky, Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

“Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity but also because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead.”
― Noam Chomsky, Who Rules the World?

“La economía colonial latinoamericana dispuso de la mayor concentración de fuerza de trabajo hasta entonces conocida, para hacer posible la mayor concentración de riqueza de que jamás haya dispuesto civilización alguna en la historia mundial.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Las venas abiertas de América Latina

“It is no easy task to gain some understanding of human affairs. In some respects, the task is harder than in the natural sciences. Mother nature doesn't provide the answers on a silver platter, but at least she does not go out of her way to set up barriers to understanding. In human affairs, such barriers are the norm. It is necessary to dismantle the structures of deception erected by doctrinal systems which adopt a range of devices that flow very naturally from the ways in which power is concentrated.”
― Noam Chomsky, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy