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Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 38

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As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Government, Tactics, Violence

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

The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed.

Names, People, Important

Noam Chomsky (2013). “On Anarchism”, p.114, New Press, The

Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum of the business-dominated consensus, it is possible for populate action to have a significant impact on policy, though indirectly. That was an important lesson for the Indochina Wars.

War, Party, Impact

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Reality, Language, Structure

The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation,... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.

Hero, People, Interesting

Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

Latin, Wings, America

Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.

Distance, Wind, Patterns

Noam Chomsky (2004). “At War with Asia”, p.203, AK Press

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'

Country, War, Thinking

"Corporate Journalism". Interview with Bernie Dwyer, chomsky.info. October 28, 2003.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Government, Population, Rich

"NSA surveillance is an attack on American citizens, says Noam Chomsky" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2013.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

War, Laos, Communist

Noam Chomsky (2004). “At War with Asia”, p.90, AK Press

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Mean, Principles, Slavery

Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.115, The New Press

Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike.

Country, Air, Long

"Chomsky on the Wisconsin Protests". bigthink.com.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

United States, Weapons, Economic

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

People, Doe, Layers

Control is the source of strategic power.

Source, Strategic

"Chomsky on Iran, Iraq, and the Rest of the World". Interview with Michael Shank, fpif.org. February 16, 2007.

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

Mean, Political, Groups

"Noam Chomsky on the Global Economic Crisis, Healthcare, US Foreign Policy and Resistance to American Empire". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 13, 2009.

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.

Attitude, Struggle, Long

Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.85, Metropolitan Books

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

Country, War, Iraq

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

Significant Change, Economy, Driven

"'Losing' the world: American decline in perspective, part 1" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2012.

There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

Party, Two, Degrees

Interview with Adam Jones, February 20, 1990.

A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.

Thoughtful, Important, Citizens

In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense.

Country, Government, Years

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.

Reading, Hebrew, Trouble

Interview with David Samuels, chomsky.info. November 12, 2010.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

Daughter, Military, War

"Peace netter". Interviewed with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2002.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

Powerful, War, Hands

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