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Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 13

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Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and

Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well.

Attitude, Media, Class

Noam Chomsky (1989). “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies”, p.8, Pluto Press

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

Law, Justice, Nicaragua

The internet, since it is publicly created, ought to be publicly controlled.

Internet, Ought, Controlled

Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

Independence, Noble, Rhetoric

Noam Chomsky (2007). “Interventions”, p.65, City Lights Publishers

If [Respulicans] can't get rid of [Obamacare], they're going to have to tell their base, we've been lying to you for the last five years. So they're willing to go to almost any extent to do that. That's unusual, in fact I think it's unique in the history of modern parliamentary systems. And it's very dangerous for the country and for the world.

Country, Lying, Unique

Source: www.truth-out.org

The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now the Southwest and Far West. That's why cities have Spanish names: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Cruz, etc. All of this is suppressed in standard American history. But the victims remember. The conquerors typically have one history, the victims a different one - and often a more accurate one.

Texas, Cities, Names

Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.

Moving, America, Nicaragua

Source: www.madre.org

What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.

Doctrine, Hemisphere, Should

Source: www.truth-out.org

The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very badly. They're imprisoned, driven into the desert. King Ahab, the epitome of evil in the Bible, condemned Elijah as a "hater of Israel." This is the first self-hating Jew, the origin of the term. It goes right up to the present. That's the history of intellectuals.

Kings, Hate, Thinking

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

Democracy, Hearing, Should

Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules - and then by the time you succeed in developing, you kick away the ladders so others can't do it too, and you preach about "free trade."

Kicking, Phrases, Ladders

Source: www.truth-out.org

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

Country, Choices, Regimes

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.

Home, Kids, College

"Plutonomy and the Precariat" by Noam Chomsky, www.thenation.com. May 8, 2012.

Nothing is more inspiring to see how poor and suffering people, living under conditions incomparably worse than we endure, continue quietly and unpretentiously with courageous and committed struggle for justice and dignity.

Struggle, People, Justice

"Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union". Interview with George Yancy, www.nytimes.com. July 5, 2017.

As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.

Long, Survival, Nuclear

"Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war" by Edward Wilson, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course in intellectual self-defense," and to suggest ways to proceed; in other words, to help people undermine the dedicated efforts to "manufacture consent" and to turn them into passive objects rather than agents who control their own fate.

Fate, Self, People

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and also demonizing them... The drug war is basically for this - It has nothing to do with drugs, but it has plenty to do with criminalizing an unwanted population and scaring everybody else.

War, Race, Class

Going back to why people don't vote, I presume the main reason is because they understand without reading political science texts that it doesn't make any difference how they vote. It's not going to affect policy, so why bother?

Reading, People, Political

Source: www.truth-out.org

When people say do you believe in God? what do they mean by it? Do I believe in some spiritual force in the world? In a way, yes. People have thoughts, emotions. If you want to call that a spiritual force, okay. But unless there's some clarification of what we're supposed to believe in or disbelieve in, I can't answer.

Spiritual, Believe, Mean

Source: chomsky.info

Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people are blissfully unaware of this danger.

War, People, Today

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Fascists, Fascism, Dictatorship

Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

You go into a hospital now, it's dangerous. We can get diseases that can't be dealt with, that are moving around the hospital. A lot of that traces back to industrial meat production. These are really serious threats, all over the place.

Moving, Meat, Disease

Source: www.counterpunch.org

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

Media, Politics, Anarchy

"Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1985.

You never really saw the racism in Europe in the past because it was so homogeneous. When everyone is blonde and blue-eyed, you don't see racism. But as soon as there was the beginnings of immigration, it just came out very dramatically.

Past, Blue, Europe

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Peace, War, Needs

"Viewpoint: War would be insane" by Noam Chomsky, news.bbc.co.uk. February 12, 2003.

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