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Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 26

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North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear weapons, the US should stop carrying out hostile military maneuvers on the North

North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear weapons, the US should stop carrying out hostile military maneuvers on the North Korean border. The US immediately rejected it. Modernization program is a very clear example of how security doesn't matter. There is no gain in security but massive overkill of the adversary's deterrent capacity. The only consequence of it is to elicit the likelihood of a preemptive attack. And a preemptive attack leads to a nuclear winter world.

Military, Winter, World

Source: www.truth-out.org

Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: What kind of peace?

Kind, Courses

Noam Chomsky's Talk on U.S. foreign policy in Central America at University of California in Berkeley, California, May 14, 1984.

'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it - As soon as you hear the word 'Reform', you should reach for your wallet and see who's lifting it.

Reform, Watches, Politician

Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our brain.' Otherwise I would have been genetically programmed to speak (some variety of) English.

Children, Brain, Language

Source: libcom.org

Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

Thinking, Community, Political

Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.138, AK Press

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

Class, Facts, Social

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

In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed by that. Those policies are designed to turn state power into an instrument that works for the wealthy. Maybe there are some crumbs for the rest of the population, maybe not. But that's given.

United States, Population, Structure

Source: chomsky.info

Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration.

Administration, Chiefs, Residence

"The Empire and Ourselves". A Solidarity Pamphlet, chomsky.info. April 09, 1986.

When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a child, as a lot hadn't been published (a lot more resources are available now).

Children, War, Years

Source: thehumanist.com

Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by the very slight variation from one language to another, and by the remarkable respects in which all languages are the same. And then he would notice we do not pay any attention to that because for the purpose of human life it is quite natural and appropriate just to take for granted everything that is common. We don't concern ourselves with that, all we worry about are differences.

Differences, Worry, Would Be

Source: chomsky.info

Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our minds happen to be close to true. Well, there is no particular reason to suppose that the intersection of true theories and theories that are accessible to the mind is very large. It may not be very large.

Mind, May, Reason

Source: chomsky.info

If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what do we conclude from that? We conclude exactly what Kissinger was kind enough to say: These doctrines are unilateral. They are not intended as doctrines of international law or doctrines of international affairs. They are doctrines that grant the U.S. the right to use force and violence and to harbor terrorists, but not anyone else.

Law, Important, Violence

Source: progressive.org

Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.

Worry, Climate, Uncertain

Source: www.counterpunch.org

Elements of the Christian fundamentalist right are one of the strongest components of "support for Israel" - support in an odd sense, because they presumably want to see it destroyed in a cosmic battle at Armageddon, after which all the proper souls will ascend to heaven - or so I understand, again, not from close reading.

Christian, Reading, Israel

Source: chomsky.info

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

Israel, Egypt, Public Opinion

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

Use, Nuclear Proliferation, Violence

Noam Chomsky (2007). “Interventions”, p.142, City Lights Publishers

To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at it dispassionately, ask what happened during World War I. What was the typical behavior of respected intellectuals in Germany, England, the United States? What happened to those who publicly questioned the nobility of the war effort, on both sides? I do not think the answers are untypical.

War, Thinking, Civilization

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

The evangelicals. . . . If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem.

Sex, Gold, Cadillacs

If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

Downtown, Agendas, Four

"Who Runs America?". Interview with Adrian Zupp, chomsky.info. April 1-8, 1999.

It's easy to put [serious threats] aside, and the media don't talk about them. Other things are more important. How am I going to put food on the table tomorrow? That's what I've got to worry about, and so on. It's very serious, but it's hard to bring out the enormity of these issues, when they do not have the dramatic character of something you can show in the movies, with a nuclear weapons falling and everything disappears.

Fall, Character, Media

Source: www.counterpunch.org

In any case, it is better to have some deal than no deal, but it's interesting that Obama picked the day of implementing of Iran deal to impose new sanctions on North Korea.

Iran, Korea, Interesting

"Noam Chomsky on the 2016 Republicans: "I Have Never Seen Such Lunatics in the Political System". Interview with Simone Chun, www.alternet.org. March 11, 2016.

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.

Men, Rights, White Man

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

Some [people] may be "servants of the power structure," but that has to be shown. I think it often can be shown, but the burden of proof is on the critic who puts forth that thesis in particular cases.

Thinking, Burden Of Proof, Often Can

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

Strong, War, Support

Source: www.iww.org

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

Communication, Thinking, Important

Source: chomsky.info

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