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Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 35

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As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

Tools, Research, Internet

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

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

Independent, Iraq, Sovereign

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

4th Of July, America, Mechanic

"'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

Routine, Done, World

"THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 11-02-03: QUESTIONS FOR NOAM CHOMSKY; The Professorial Provocateur". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 2003.

My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

Proposal, Mainstream, Happens

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

Waiting, Financial, Reason

"My Interview With Noam Chomsky on the Economy". Interview with Ben Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2008.

I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left” you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.

Mean, People, Justice

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices to undermine even the most precise analogy and the most impeccable reasoning.

Powerful, Principles, Western Culture

"Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians". Book by Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky, January 20, 2009.

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

Reactions, Delusion

"The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars — they would think the country has gone insane.

Country, Thinking, Political

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.

Indulge In, Perspective, Would Be

"The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.

Past, Risk, Cost

Noam Chomsky (2007). “Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy”, p.126, Macmillan

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

Government, Honest, Embedded

Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (2010). “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World”, p.34, Macmillan

The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values.

Philosophical, Issues, Experts

Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.71, Pantheon

Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire.

Appreciation, Art, Reading

People tend to rally around power.

People

My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.

School, Achievement, Black

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky (2001). “Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky”, p.19, Pluto Press

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

People, Philosopher, Fashionable

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns.

Needs, Want, Kind

"Work, Learning And Freedom". Interview with Michael Kasenbacher, www.newleftproject.org. December 24, 2012.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

Want, Life Is, Social

"Work, Learning And Freedom". Interview with Michael Kasenbacher, www.newleftproject.org. December 24, 2012.

It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures - it’s inevitable. But unless the spirit of the last year, here and elsewhere in the country and around the globe, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high.

Country, Political, Hardship

"Occupy". Book by Noam Chomsky, www.tomdispatch.com. 2012.

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

Atheist, Believe, Answers

The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense a democracy, but it is one in which there are enormous inequities in the distribution of power and force. For example, the entire commercial and industrial system is in principle excluded from the democratic process, including everything that goes on within it

Real, Distribution Of Power, Democracy

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

Mean, Justice, Diversity

Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.151, Soft Skull Press

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

Training, Arms, Violence

"Now it's a free for all". www.theguardian.com. May 16, 1999.

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