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Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 20

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In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a model intellectual in [Edward] Said's sense, and for that reason determined, in their words, that we must stop this brain from functioning

In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for that reason determined, in their words, that "we must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years."

Government, Years, Intellectual

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

Thinking, Political, Economics

Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero (2003). “Chomsky on Democracy and Education”, p.146, Psychology Press

Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to: Eating meat. The meat production industry, the industrial production of meat, uses an immense amount of antibiotics.We're now running out of antibiotics that deal with the threat of rapidly mutating bacteria. A lot of that just comes from the meat production industry. Well, do we worry about it? Well, we ought to be.

Running, Worry, Meat

Source: www.counterpunch.org

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

Running, Struggle, Class

"Chomsky: "The Business Elites ... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

Slavery, Association, Welfare

Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Arguing, Ifs

If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the opposite is true, which it often is.

Often Is, Opposites, Boss

Source: www.iww.org

You have to rely on yourself and your associates - gifts don't come from above; you're going to win them, or you won't have them.

Winning, Rely On Yourself, Rely

Source: www.iww.org

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

Struggle, Winning, Understanding

Source: www.iww.org

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

War, Government, United States

Source: www.iww.org

The contradiction is somehow unresolved. In the case of the business propaganda, it's particularly ironic because while business wants the population to hate the government, they want the population to love the government. Namely, they're in favor of a very powerful state which works in their interest.

Powerful, Hate, Government

Source: www.iww.org

I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.

Revolutionary, Anarchist, Accepting

Source: libcom.org

The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state capitalist democracies because it was in people's heads. There were other parts of the world that were pretty much devastated and they couldn't do it; they didn't have the conceptions in their mind. A lot of it is human consciousness.

War, Europe, Long

Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're treated depends on the society. Like in Eastern Europe, they were treated very badly. In Latin America, they were slaughtered.

Real, Latin, Europe

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to do this, with data-handling or 'hypothesis-formulating' ability of unknown character and complexity.

Children, Character, Data

Andrea Moro, Noam Chomsky, Ivano Caponigro, Daniel B. Kane (2015). “The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages”, p.37, MIT Press

The racism is so profound and the recognition - the kind of deep recognition that you have to humiliate. It's not about to killing or torture. It's to humiliate. So the oppressed feel degraded. And both the oppressed understand and the oppressors understand. It's constant.

Racism, Profound, Recognition

Source: www.truth-out.org

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Rights, Illustration, Justice

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.

Thinking, Names, Ideas

Interview with Svetlana Vukovic, Svetlana Lukic, www.b92.net. September 19, 2001.

Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret.

Thinking, September 11, Secret

Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.35, Seven Stories Press

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.

Government, Subsidies, Agribusiness

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

Latin, Moving, Years

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

Doe, Human Nature, Characteristics

"Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media", www.imdb.com. 1992.

States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent to the extent that they're powerful, that's roughly accurate.

Country, Powerful, Government

"Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, 1992.

Governments are not representative.

Government, Representatives

"NSA surveillance is an attack on American citizens, says Noam Chomsky" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2013.

It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't all be left in the hands of the parents. They can be irresponsible too.

Children, Hands, Decision

"Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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