Noam Chomsky quotes - page 18

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. (Noam Chomsky)
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. View quote
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done. View quote
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. View quote
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If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. View quote
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. View quote
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. View quote
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If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health. View quote
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up. View quote
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Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. View quote
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If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works. (Noam Chomsky)
Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college. View quote
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. View quote
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There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. View quote
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If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program. View quote
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If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them. View quote
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If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities. View quote
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The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests. View quote
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. View quote
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places. View quote
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. (Noam Chomsky)
September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That's all to the good. View quote
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In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.' View quote
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If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option. View quote
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I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had. View quote
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