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Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 31

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My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and

My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

Agency, Feelings, Essentials

I didn't pay my taxes for years.

Years, Pay, Taxes

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.

War, Iran, Leaving

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

Responsibility, Army, Rights

"How can America get out of Iraq?" by Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Schell, Howard Zinn and William Polk, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2004.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Believe, Responsibility, Privilege

"Question time" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

Haiti, Figures, Accounts

"Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin America, and the History of the U.S. in the Middle East". Interview with Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. February 17, 2011.

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

Giving, Study, Individual

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

West

"“A Hideous Atrocity”: Noam Chomsky on Israel’s Assault on Gaza and U.S. Support for the Occupation". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan González, chomsky.info. August 7, 2014.

the Federal Reserve, has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... The European central bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

Commitment, Two, Different

Interview with Renowned Scholar, dialogosmedia.org. October 13, 2012.

Real schools ought to provide people with techniques of self-defense, but that would mean teaching the truth about the world and about the society, and schools couldn't survive very long if they did that.

Real, Teaching, School

Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (1992). “Chronicles of dissent”

Nixon at one point informs Kissinger . . . that he wanted bombing of Cambodia. And Kissinger loyally transmits the order to the Pentagon to carry out a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves . . . genocide.

Moving, Order, Campaigns

One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop.

Marijuana, Answers, Might

Noam Chomsky (1992). “Deterring Democracy”, p.122, Macmillan

The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

Cages, Beast, Dangerous

Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (1996). “Class warfare: interviews with David Barsamian”, Common Courage Pr

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

Democracy, Needs, Democratic

Noam Chomsky (2004). “Chomsky on Mis-Education”, p.17, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace.

Land, People, Palestinian

Interview with Ahmed Nassef, April 29, 2004.

The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries.

Uplifting, Country, Couple

Seminar at Bard College, New York, February 02, 2000.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

Believe, Law, Privilege

Women taking care of children . . . it makes sense to pay them for that work . . . they should be paid for it, but that requires tax payments. And the same is true about protection of the environment.

Children, Care, Pay

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

Responsibility, Trying, Agents

Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.56, Pluto Press

The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it.

Way, Terrorism, Ends

"Chomsky criticizes US violence" by Sarah H. Wright, news.mit.edu. October 24, 2001.

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

Thinking, Henry Kissinger, Attributes

It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the First World War. The public sees no reason to get involved in foreign adventures, killing, and torture. So you have to whip them up. And to whip them up you have to frighten them.

War, Adventure, Media

Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.30, Seven Stories Press

Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

Media, Political, Democracy

Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.33, Seven Stories Press

The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

College, People, Understanding

Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.73, Soft Skull Press

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

Home, Opportunity, Productive Work

Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.179, Pantheon

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