Noam Chomsky Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: What kind of peace?
The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
all sorts of considerations determine the truth conditions of a statement, and these go well beyond the scope of grammar.
The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.
Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.
I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.
I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.
I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.
Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society, and by explicit judgments of value concerning the character of this future society.
Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.
There is no demonstration against Zionism, because even the European Parliament regards such a demonstration as anti-Semitic.
Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.
The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.
Alleged commitment to democracy and human rights is mere rhetoric, directly contrary to actual policy.
Corporations with their political allies are waging an unrelenting class war against working people.
Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.
The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
the way they put it, we as a society have decided not to modify the society but to modify the children.
Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.
Any attempt to solve a conflict has to touch upon its very core; the core, more often than not, lies in its history.
WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.
If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.
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.
There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.
The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.
Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.
If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.
It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.
We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.
Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]
As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.