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Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 24

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The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.

The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.

Justice, Democracy, Answers

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right in Afghanistan. Rights of former slaves were very limited until the 1960s, and in some ways still are. In these and other domains there has been progress in democracy, though still seriously flawed. In other dimensions - the control of concentrated wealth over the political process, for example, things have gotten much worse in recent years. And there is much more, in both directions.

Rights, Years, Political

Source: chomsky.info

Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

Years, Support, Energy

Source: www.counterpunch.org

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Worry, Independence, Islam

The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of Thomas Ferguson, has shown convincingly that elections are pretty much bought. For example, campaign spending alone is a remarkably good predictor of electoral success, and support of corporate power and private wealth is a virtual prerequisite even for participation in the political arena.

Support, Political, Election

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

U.S. international and security policy . . . has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.

Goal, Degrees, Might

Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.1, Pluto Press

There's an interesting book by the former Brazilian ambassador Celso Amorim. In 2010, he initiated an effort along with Turkey to settle the whole Iran issue. Nobody outside of the United States takes it to be much of an issue. They made a deal with Iran for Iran to essentially give away its low enriched uranium to Turkey for storage, and in return, the Western powers. It was immediately scratched by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. And the main reason was they didn't want anybody else to be involved in it. We were supposed to run things, but we didn't say that.

Running, Book, Giving

Source: www.truth-out.org

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

Iraq, World, Gains

"On the Election". "Real Time" with Bill Maher, chomsky.info. November 10, 2004.

There's one white powder which is by far the most lethal known, it's called sugar. . . . The Caribbean back in the 18th century was a soft drug producer: sugar, rum, tobacco, chocolate. And in order to do it, they had to enslave Africans.

Order, White, Chocolate

Noam Chomsky's Talk at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, October 18, 2002.

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

Goal, Inspire, Trying

"Chomsky On The Prospect of Kurdish Independence". Interview with Namo Abdulla, chomsky.info. February 15, 2011.

One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.

Real, Association, Problem

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

We're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile.

Situation, Mobile, Labour

I do not feel that we should set up PEOPLE as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.

People, Principles, Action

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or other aspects; nor do I see why anyone should care. We are not engaged in idol worship, after all.

Idols, Intellectual, Care

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then experimental psychology, and finally on to history. Roughly. These are tendencies, and they tend to distinguish roughly between hard and soft sciences.

Hands, Psychology, Depth

Source: libcom.org

You never know how [Donald Trump] is going to react. When he learned for example that he'd lost the election by about three million votes, his instant reaction was insanity; you know, three to five million illegal immigrants somehow were organized in some incredible fashion to vote.

Fashion, Insanity, Example

Source: www.counterpunch.org

Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or another variant of state capitalism.

Mind, Tiny, Bears

Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would be loyal and lasting and they were thinking in terms of an institution that would remain and grow and thrive in the society. By now, a lot of the investment firms - bankers, hedge funds - are perfectly happy to destroy what they're in and come out with huge, tremendous benefits. That's a new stage of capitalism.

Thinking, Trying, Bankers

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

There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion about Harvard, and indeed the school's president, James Conant, did block Jewish faculty. He was the one who prevented European Jews from being admitted to the chemistry department - his field - and also had pretty good relations with the Nazis.

Block, Book, School

Source: thehumanist.com

Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they also have a democratizing effect. These are institutions in which people without power can get together, support one another, learn about the world, try out their ideas, initiate programs, and that is dangerous. That's like a referendum in Greece. It is dangerous to allow that.

Fighting, Class, Organization

Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

I mean, the liberal democrats aren't going to tell the average American, "Yeah, you're being shafted because of the policies that we've established over the years that we're maintaining now." That's not going to be an answer. And they're not getting answers from the left.

Mean, Average, Years

Source: www.iww.org

Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers," so that the self-designated "responsible men" will be able to run the affairs of the world untroubled by the "bewildered herd" - the general public - who are to be marginalized and dispersed, directed to personal concerns, in a well-regulated "democracy."

Running, Army, Men

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

Berlin, Red, Priesthood

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

In fact, various lawyers' groups - to some extent in the U.S. but mostly in England and Canada and elsewhere - are bringing demands for a war crimes trial for the crime of aggression. However, though the invasion of Iraq was plainly an act of aggression, it doesn't break any records.

War, Iraq, Invasion

Source: progressive.org

What right does the US have to do anything in Colombia? Does Colombia have the right to bomb North Carolina? There are more Colombians dying from tobacco than Americans dying from heroin.

Dying, North Carolina, Doe

Source: www.madre.org

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