Noam Chomsky quotes - page 12

Everybody is for peace. The question is: "What kind of peace?" (Noam Chomsky)
Sectors of the doctrinal system serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce the basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. View quote
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It is likely to prove to be a crushing blow to Palestinians and other poor and oppressed people. It is also likely to lead to harsh security controls, with many possible ramifications for undermining civil liberties and internal freedom. View quote
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State terror is almost always much more extreme than retail terror, and this is no exception. View quote
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Until now, Central America has always understood that governments that we recognize and support stay in power, while those we do not recognize and support, fall. View quote
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Every year thousands of people, mostly children and poor farmers, are killed in the Plain of Jars in Northern Laos. View quote
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The uniformity and obedience of the media. View quote
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Clinton shipped new helicopters to Israel as soon as they started using them against civilians. View quote
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Prophet just means intellectual. View quote
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One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression. View quote
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It may be comforting to pretend that our enemies "hate our freedoms," as President Bush stated, but it is hardly wise to ignore the real world. (Noam Chomsky)
Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy. View quote
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The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything. View quote
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Do they inhere in persons of flesh and blood or ... in abstract constructions like corporations, or capital, or states? In the past century the idea that such entities have special rights, over and above persons, has been strongly advocated. The most prominent examples are . View quote
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Where the state lacks means of coercion, it is important to control what people think. View quote
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Within our ideological system, it is impossible to perceive that anyone might criticize anything but "mistakes" View quote
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It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state. View quote
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If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states. View quote
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No less insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. View quote
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The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. In terms of number of victims they do not reach the level of many others, for example, Clinton's bombing of the Sudan with no credible pretext, destroying half its pharmaceutical supplies and probably killing tens of thousands of people. View quote
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Either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community interests, guided by values of solidarity, sympathy and concern for others, or alternatively there will be no destiny for anyone to control. (Noam Chomsky)
No country, no business class, has ever been willing to subject itself to the free market. View quote
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The political policies that are called conservative these days would appall any genuine conservative. View quote
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The people who call themselves conservatives. View quote
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We've long ago reached that level. View quote
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