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Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 36

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Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Judging, Violence, Dignity

"Noam Chomsky criticises old friend Hugo Chávez for 'assault' on democracy" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Latin, Sea, Luxury

The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.

Military, Focus, News

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Doe, Cost, Territory

Noam Chomsky (2007). “Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance”, p.241, Macmillan

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

Powerful, Groups, Done

"Civilization versus Barbarism?". Interview with M. Junaid Alam, chomsky.info. December 17, 2004.

If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

Children, People, Age

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

Real, Democracy, Election

"Chomsky on McCutcheon: ‘Let’s Forget Any Pretense of Being a Democratic Society’" by Abel Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2014.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

Moving, Justice, Judging

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.

Government, Long, World

Interview with Michael Shank, www.counterpunch.org. February 22, 2007.

The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.

Cost, World, Outcomes

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

Space, People, Community

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

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

Vietnam, Syndromes, Fabrication

Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2004.

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.

Discovery, Data, Deep Understanding

Noam Chomsky (2002). “Syntactic Structures”, p.5, Walter de Gruyter

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

War, Numbers, Analysts

"Was There an Alternative?" by Noam Chomsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

War, Resistance, Argument

Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.82, The New Press

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Idiotic, Notion, Pure

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

Iraq, Expectations, Increase

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Executive Power, Accumulation, Executives

"Noam Chomsky on Venezuela - the transcript". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011.

I don't want followers.

Followers, Want

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

People, Interest, Perceive

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

States are not moral agents.

Agents, Moral, States

Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.163, The New Press

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

Rights, Should Have, Leader

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

War, Example, World

Chomsky, Noam “Essential Chomsky”, Penguin Books India

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Wmd, Style, Together

Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people we honor as prophets, there were the people we condemn as false prophets. But if you look at the biblical record, at the time, it was the other way around. The flatterers of the Court of King Ahab were the ones who were honored. The ones we call prophets were driven into the desert and imprisoned.

Kings, Mean, Biblical

"The U.S. Role in the World". Interview with Harry Kreisler, globetrotter.berkeley.edu. March 22, 2002.

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