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Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 41

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Governments don't control people like they used to.

Governments don't control people like they used to.

Government, People, Used

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

I don't like the intellectual label.

Intellectual, Labels

"Noam Chomsky: The Professorial Provocateur". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 2003.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

Serious, Well Known, Wells

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

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

Overcoming, States, Projects

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

Government, People, Atrocities

"CNN Debate on "Terrorism" Chomsky v. Bennett". Debate with Paula Zahn, www.freerepublic.com. May 30, 2002.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Birthday, Mother, Past

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

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Inspirational, Funny, Communication

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

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

War, Fighting, Two

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

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Country, Latin, Years

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

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

People, Movement, Significant

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

Fun, College, Analysis

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

Principles, Unexpected, Theory

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky (2001). “Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky”, p.21, Pluto Press

To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.

Real, Fall, Errors

Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.35, Pluto Press

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .

Helping, Students

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover.

Matter

Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero (2003). “Chomsky on Democracy and Education”, p.403, Psychology Press

Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

Body, Compounds, Commandos

"Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death". www.guernicamag.com. May 6, 2011.

The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and create, live their lives freely within institutions they control, and with limited hierarchical structures, possibly none at all

People, Tasks, Live Free

Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.132, AK Press

Education is imposed ignorance.

Ignorance

... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity, but outcome. Without that you can't seriously talk about a democratic state... These concepts of the common good have a long life. They lie right at the core of classical liberalism, of Enlightenment thinking... Like Aristotle, [Adam] Smith understood that the common good will require substantial intervention to assure lasting prosperity of the poor by distribution of public revenues.

Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.

Opportunity, Liberty, Devil

Noam Chomsky, Donaldo Macedo (2004). “Chomsky on Miseducation”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will read or to solve a problem which no one else thinks important and which will bring no conceivable reward - which may only confirm a general opinion that the researcher is wasting his time on irrelevancies.

Writing, Thinking, Important

Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.24, The New Press

The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political stand, so they have to destroy what they call Obamacare. This is now not all the Republicans, it's a wing of the Republican Party, which is called conservative but in fact is just deeply reactionary.

Party, Wings, Obamacare

Source: www.truth-out.org

In a moment of crisis, of which there are all too many, Russian military planners may conclude that lacking a deterrent, the only hope of survival is a first strike - which means the end for all of us.

Military, Mean, Survival

"Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union". Interview with George Yancy, www.nytimes.com. July 5, 2017.

Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.

Technique, Subsidies, States

"Chomsky: "The Business Elites ... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying.

Years, Intellectual, Imf

"Chomsky: "The Business Elites... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

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