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Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 27

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A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.

A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.

Country, Government, Might

Source: www.truth-out.org

Internal security means something. It means war against your own population.

War, Mean, Population

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.

Creativity, Valleys, Doe

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

I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the most famous writers, journalists, academics and so on, are not only critical of state policy, but are constantly carrying out civil disobedience and risking imprisonment and often being imprisoned, standing up for people's rights. That's Turkey.

Country, Mean, Rights

Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

In the Munich agreement in late 1938 [Franklin] Roosevelt sent his chief adviser Sumner Welles, who came back with a very supportive statement saying that Hitler was someone we could really do business with and so on.

Agreement, Supportive, Munich

Source: thehumanist.com

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

United States, Doctrine, Authority

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to break a major strike. It was reported pretty well in the Chicago Tribune, who pointed out something very interesting. They said that the workers got very little support in Peoria when scabs illegally broke the strike, and that was particularly striking because that whole community had been built up by the union - it was a union-based community.

Interesting, Support, Community

Source: www.iww.org

So if you look at the writings of intellectuals, there are two kinds. One said, l"Look, if we fought harder we could have won.But the others, who were way at the left, people like Anthony Lewis of the New York Times, way out in left stream, his view in 1975 was the Vietnam war began with blundering efforts to do good. But by 1969, it was clear that it was a disaster, that was too costly to us.

New York, War, Writing

Source: www.counterpunch.org

People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to.

Media, People, Trying

Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they reach a huge audience. And they're very uniform. So right wing, I don't think you can even find an analog in your, but they reach a mass audience, and their view is that the corporations are liberal. Their appeal to the population is, "the country is run by liberals, they own the corporations, they run the government, they own the media, and they don't care about us ordinary people."

Running, Country, Thinking

Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

Trying, Language, Kind

Source: chomsky.info

For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect of human nature. And second, I think, it is a good model for studying other human properties, which ought to be studied by psychologists in the same way.

Thinking, Way, Study

Source: chomsky.info

From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course that Kennedy and Johnson knew that if any political solution was permitted in the south, the National Liberation Front would effectively come to power, so strong was its political support in comparison with the political support of the so-called South Vietnamese government.

Strong, Government, Support

Source: chomsky.info

We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.

Teacher, Teaching, Good Teacher

Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.61, South End Press

We have to recognize that there is a range of interests, like there isn't a single corporate interest and a single state interest, so there's a range. In addition to that, there is the fact of professional integrity.

Integrity, Facts, States

Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe the third major target of US intervention, probably ranks third poorest.

Target, Haiti, Guatemala

Source: www.madre.org

The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to the powerful for them not to.

Powerful, Principles, Looks

Source: www.madre.org

The two countries [Pakistan and India] have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.

Country, Two, Important

Source: www.dawn.com

Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task that [Edward] Said describes, surely an important one.

Responsibility, Special, Important

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

Right at the beginning of all of this [Ukraine to join NATO], serious senior statesmen, people like [George] Kennan for example and others warned that the expansion of NATO to the east is going to cause a disaster. I mean, it's like having the Warsaw Pact on the Mexican border. It's inconceivable. And others, senior people warned about this, but policymakers didn't care. Just go ahead.

Senior, Mean, Ukraine

Source: www.counterpunch.org

Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components... the syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation. The first of these is interpreted by the semantic component; the second, by the phonological component.

Numbers, Three, Firsts

The US is off the spectrum in religious commitment. It's been increasing since 1980 but it's a major part of the voting base of the Republican Party so that means committing to anti-abortion positions, opposing women's rights.

Religious, Party, Mean

"Talking With Chomsky". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. April 30, 2012.

The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it out, see what looks correct, what looks wrong, look at other material which wasn't discussed, figure out what the truth really is. That's what you've got a brain for.

Brain, Looks, Firsts

Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. May 1, 2004.

I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and in some small newspapers, but not in the mainstream press.

Wall, Marine, Two

Source: thehumanist.com

Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.

Technology, Differences, Decision

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

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