Noam Chomsky Quotes about Choices

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The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn that markets are systems in which informed consumers make rational choices. That's

The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn that markets are systems in which informed consumers make rational choices. That's what's so wonderful about it. But that's the last thing that the state corporate system wants. It is spending huge sums to prevent that.

Noam Chomsky

School, Choices, Purpose

Speech at 25th anniversary of the International Relations Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 26, 2005.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

Loss, Choices, Decision

Television interview, 30 Mar. 1978, in Listener 6 Apr. 1978

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

Noam Chomsky

Country, Choices, Regimes

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.

Noam Chomsky

Country, People, Choices

Noam Chomsky (2004). “At War with Asia”, p.194, AK Press

We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to unionize. We have two choices: to help them improve their lives, or to keep away so that their lives will be worse. Neither choice has any effect on use of fossil fuels. So radical organizers can both help them unionize and improve their lives, and convince them to find a different way to survive and work for ending the use of fossil fuels.

Noam Chomsky

Two, Choices, Trying

Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

The human species is now at a point where it has to make choices that are going to determine whether decent survival is even possible. Environmental catastrophe, including war, maybe pandemics, these are very serious issues and they can't be addressed within the current structure of institutions. That's almost given. There have to be real significant changes, and only really effective popular mass-based movements can introduce and carry forward such initiatives, as indeed did happen during the 1930s.

Noam Chomsky

Real, War, Choices

Source: www.truth-out.org

Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices.

Noam Chomsky

University Students, Choices, Climate

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice.

Noam Chomsky

Choices, Would Be, Profile

Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

Noam Chomsky Quotes about Choices

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