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Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 5

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The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

Interest, Conform

Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.

Moral, Ends, Aggressive

Source: www.truth-out.org

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

Israel, People, Moral

"Q&A: Noam Chomsky". Interview with David Samuels, www.tabletmag.com. November 12, 2010.

People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.

People, Effort, Deceit

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Mirrors, People, Monsters

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

If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be harmed by this are your grandchildren and they don't have any votes in the market. Their interests are worth zero. Anybody that pays attention to their grandchildren's interests is being irrational. Because what you're supposed to do is maximize your own interests, measured by wealth, right now. Nothing else matters. So destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies, but within a framework of institutional lunacy.

Zero, Grandchildren, Space

Source: www.madre.org

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

Attitude, Engineering, Perception

Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.83, Metropolitan Books

Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate

Agendas, Outcomes, Debate

Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in reality, democratic, there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy. They would simply act and behave democratically, and we know this does not happen. The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

School, Reality, Democracy

Noam Chomsky (2004). “Chomsky on Mis-Education”, p.16, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you look at his program, almost no substance. Change, hope, what's that? I mean, he had some policies, but it was almost certain that he would give them up instantly, which he did.

Mean, Intelligent, Giving

Source: brightestyoungthings.com

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Mean, People, Common Sense

"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.

What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it's a global system and of course he didn't say it, it's an intervention force under US command, as we've seen in case after case. So that's NATO.

Couple, War, Mean

Source: www.counterpunch.org

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

Opportunity, Devil, Criminals

Noam Chomsky (1999). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.91, Seven Stories Press

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Ideas, Imbeciles

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

There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.

Responsibility, People, Care

"Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.

Crush, Technology, Skulls

"Noam Chomsky on the Purpose of Education" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. March 13, 2012.

The very idea that there should be a certain class of people who give orders by virtue of their ownership of wealth and another huge class who take on orders and follow them because of their lack of access to wealth and power, that's unacceptable. So, sure it should be abolished.

Order, Class, Ideas

Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

Independent development can be a virus that can infect others.

Independent, Viruses, Development

Source: www.counterpunch.org

Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.

War, Block, Islamic

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.

War, People, Sticks

Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (2010). “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World”, p.79, Macmillan

The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

Running, Deceit, Primaries

In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.

World, States, Terrorist

Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.23, Seven Stories Press

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

Believe, Future, Optimistic

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

Government, Principles, Fundamentals

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.

Freedom, Practice, Tasks

"The Chomsky Reader". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1987.

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