Noam Chomsky quotes - page 11

The question is whether privileged elite should dominate mass communication and should use this power. (Noam Chomsky)
The United States is not going in there to save the oppressed. View quote
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What I find terrifying is the detachment and equanimity with which we view and discuss an unbearable tragedy. View quote
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What was the U.S. reaction to the meeting in Geneva? The U.S. boycotted the meeting... and that has the usual consequence, it means the meeting is null and void, silence in the media. View quote
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If you look into the history of what is called the CIA, which means the US White House, its secret wars, clandestine warfare, the trail of drug production just follows. View quote
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The long-term goal of the Oslo process. View quote
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Saddam Hussein was giving $10,000 to the families of anyone who was killed by Israeli atrocities, and there were plenty of them. View quote
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President Eisenhower described "the campaign of hatred against us. View quote
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There was nothing remotely like socialism in the Soviet Union... View quote
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The "corporatization of America" during the past century has been an attack on democracy-and on markets, part of the shift from something resembling "capitalism" to the highly administered markets of the modern state/corporate era. View quote
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And after that every single memoirist radically changed their story about what had happened. (Noam Chomsky)
We kill them by carrying out policies, supporting the regimes. View quote
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The hypocrite is the person who refuses to apply to himself the standards that he applies to others. By that standard, the entire commentary and discussion of the so-called "war on terror" is pure hypocrisy, virtually without exception. View quote
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Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. View quote
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I just compared that with standard Leninist views on vanguard parties, which are about the same. About the only difference is that McNamara brought God in. View quote
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If you can think of nothing that wouldn't do harm, then do nothing. View quote
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They can't comprehend what your question is, because you can't comprehend that we should apply to ourselves the standards that you apply to others. That is incomprehensible! View quote
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There was a lot of resistance to mass education for exactly that reason. View quote
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Here it happened in the way American propaganda always works: by servility and cowardice and class interest. View quote
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We do control the destinies of Central America and we do so for the simple reason that the national interest absolutely dictates such a course. View quote
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It is highly advantageous for the business world to foster hatred for pointy-headed government bureaucrats and to drive out of people's minds the subversive idea that the government might become an instrument of popular will, a government of, by and for the people. (Noam Chomsky)
There are no conservatives in the United States. View quote
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Now that should really make Osama bin Laden tremble in his boots - that the President has Kremlin-style authority to sign economic agreements. View quote
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The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply lack cognitive meaning. View quote
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Virtually the entire dynamic economy in the United States is based crucially on state initiative and intervention. View quote
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