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Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 19

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I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on the freedom and rights of others, including exploitation of labor, and that

I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on the freedom and rights of others, including exploitation of labor, and that convert any democratic forms into what have been called sometimes "hierarchical democracies," like ours, in which some have vastly greater influence over public policy than others. Spelling all of this out is a complex matter that raises many issue and problems that are impossible to address here.

Thinking, Democracy, Impossible

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an attack on the remnants of the welfare state. It's hard to interpret the austerity-in-the-midst-of-recession policy as anything other than attack on the social contract.

Xenophobia, Europe, Growth

"Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

Since November 8, 2017 the United States is literally alone in the world in first of all refusing to join in efforts to do something about climate change, but even worse, dedicated to making the situation worse. Every part of the world is trying to do something. The United States alone is trying to destroy it, and it's not just Trump, it's the whole Republican Party. You just can't find words for it. And it's not reported. It's not discussed.

Party, Effort, Trying

Source: www.truth-out.org

Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That’s just fine. It’s just the poor who aren’t supposed to cooperate.

Powerful, Working Together, Directors

Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.224, Soft Skull Press

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

Giving, Challenges, Trying

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Weapons, Language, Affair

Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

Purpose, Half, Tactics

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

New York, Order, Miracle

Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.128, Pluto Press

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

Information, Gains, Common

It's designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity

People, Insecurity, Competition

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

Impact, Environment, Transactions

"Noam Chomsky slams Canada's shale gas energy plans" by Martin Lukacs, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2013.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Teaching, Years, Today

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

Character, Mind, Principles

Noam Chomsky (2006). “Language and Mind”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

Running, Planning, Unusual

"Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves conservatives, like the Heritage Foundation or Gingrich, are believers in -- are radical statists. They believe in a powerful state, but a welfare state for the rich.

Powerful, Believe, People

"On US Military Budgets". Interviewed with Ira Shorr, chomsky.info. February 11, 1996.

The US cannot be brought to the World Court for major crimes, for example the supreme international crime, invasion, or violation of the UN Charter, or violation of the Genocide Convention, these are things the US is exempt from, because they exempted themselves from being subjected to international treaties in World Court proceedings.

Example, World, Invasion

Source: www.counterpunch.org

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

Rights, Should Have, Corporations

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

So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.

Powerful, Race, Racing

Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.119, Metropolitan Books

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

Rights, Majority Rule, Democracy

Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word "democracy" - recall that they called what they'd constructed "peoples' democracies." The weird offshoot of ultra-right individualist anarchism that is called "libertarian" here happens to amount to advocacy of perhaps the worst kind of imaginable tyranny, namely unaccountable private tyranny. If they want to call that "libertarian," fine; after all, Stalin called his system "democratic." But why bother arguing about it?

Democracy, Want, Libertarian

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

Self, Amusing, Conscious

There are in fact many ways to combat the Trump project of creating a tiny America, isolated from the world, cowering in fear behind walls while pursuing the Paul Ryan-style domestic policies that represent the most savage wing of the Republican establishment.

Wall, World, Republican

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

I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was practically no Jewish faculty there.

America, Students, Nazi

Source: thehumanist.com

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Latin, America, Pathology

"Noam Chomsky on Venezuela". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011.

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

Intellectual, Truism

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