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Noam Chomsky Quotes about Opportunity

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If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

Courage, Freedom, Opportunity

Noam Chomsky, Heinz Dieterich (1999). “Latin America: from colonization to globalization”, Ocean Pr

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

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Teacher, School, Opportunity

Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.149, Pantheon

The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.

Responsibility, Opportunity, People

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.

Responsibility, Opportunity, Privilege

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

Home, Opportunity, Productive Work

Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.179, Pantheon

... 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

It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities and opportunities to speak and act effectively."

Responsibility, Opportunity, People

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just.

Opportunity, Peaceful, World

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and independent use of such opportunities; it is something else for the university to become engaged as an institution, beyond a fairly narrow range where true consensus exists, and even that raises questions.

Independent, Opportunity, Raises Questions

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

Around 2008 and again in 2013 NATO officially offered the Ukraine the opportunity to join NATO. That's something no Russian government is ever going to accept. It's right at the geopolitical heartland of Russia.

Opportunity, Russia, Government

"Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone and Saul Isaacson, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose in England, one landowner got most of the land and other people would have nothing to live on. He says it wouldn't matter much, because the rich land owner, by virtue of his sympathy for other people would distribute resources among them, so that by an invisible hand, we would end up with a pretty egalitarian society. That is his conception of human nature.

Opportunity, Invisible Hand, Hands

Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

Trump's principal policies make clear what's going to happen. This gives an opportunity. Right now it's going to take hard work, but it's possible that there could be a real revival of the labor movement.

Real, Hard Work, Opportunity

Source: www.brooklynrail.org

There are real possibilities of reaching many of the Trump voters: many of them in fact voted for Obama, believing his rhetoric about "change," and upon realizing that they were deluded, have turned to Trump. And will find that they are again deluded. That's an opportunity that can be grasped, by organizing, education, activism right now.

Real, Believe, Opportunity

Source: www.brooklynrail.org

In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility to do more to help achieve such ends.

Responsibility, Opportunity, Able

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

Just take ease of interchange between people. Your email is of course faster than letter - on the other hand the transition from sailing ship to telegraphs was far greater than the shift from the postal service to email. That was a fabulous change. If you sent a letter to England, instead of waiting a couple of months for a response you got it instantly. That's a huge change. Every one of these changes of course increases opportunities and also increases means of control and domination.

Couple, Mean, Opportunity

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

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