Noam Chomsky Quotes And Sayings

If You Destroyed Half The Pharmaceutical Production In The United States, We'd Think It's A Pretty Serious Problem. In Fact, We'd Probably Go To War.

Spaniards Were Condemned For Appeasing Terrorism By Voting For Withdrawing Troops From Iraq In The Absence Of U.n. Authorization - That Is, For Taking A Stand Rather Like That Of 70 Percent Of Americans, Who Called For The U.n. To Take The Leading Role In Iraq.

The Government Argues That First Amendment Rights Are Outweighed By The Need To Prosecute Those Who Transmit Classified Information And Documents.

Qatar-based 'Al-jazeera,' The Most Important News Channel In The Arab World, Was Harshly Criticized By High U.s. Officials For Having 'Emphasized Civilian Casualties' During The Destruction Of Falluja. The Problem Of Independent Media Was Later Resolved When The Channel Was Kicked Out Of Iraq In Preparation For Free Elections.

The Social And Physical Construction Of Suburban America Really Was Quite Complex. It Was A Very Elaborate System, And Clearly A Massive Social Engineering Project That Has Changed U.s. Society Enormously.

The Whole Infrastructure Of Air Travel Was, And Is, Part Of Government Policy. It Is Not A Natural Development Of A Free Economic System - At Least Not In The Way That Is Claimed. The Same Is True Of The Roads, Of Course.

Free Institutions Certainly Exist, But A Tradition Of Passivity And Conformism Restricts Their Use - A Cynic Might Say That This Is Why They Continue To Exist.

Those Who Had Demanded No More Than An End To The Bombing Of North Vietnam And A Commitment To Negotiations Saw Their Demands Being Realized, And Lapsed Into Silence.

There's A War Crimes Act In The United States Passed By A Republican Congress In 1996, Which Says That Grave Breaches Of The Geneva Convention Are Subject To The Death Penalty. And That Doesn't Mean The Soldier That Committed Them - That Means The Commanders.

I Would Feel No Hesitation In Saying That It Is The Responsibility Of A Decent Human Being To Give Assistance To A Child Who Is Being Attacked By A Rabid Dog, But I Would Not Intend This To Imply That In All Imaginable Circumstances One Must, Necessarily, Act In Accordance With This General Responsibility.

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.

I Don't Like The Intellectual Label.

To Some Degree It Matters Who's In Office, But It Matters More How Much Pressure They're Under From The Public.

Language Is A Weapon Of Politicians, But Language Is A Weapon In Much Of Human Affairs.

The Only Justification For Repressive Institutions Is Material And Cultural Deficit. But Such Institutions, At Certain Stages Of History, Perpetuate And Produce Such A Deficit, And Even Threaten Human Survival.

I Don't Want Followers.

States Are Not Moral Agents.

I Don't Know If I Officially Proofread My Father's Book, But I Read It. I Did Get Some Conception Of Grammar In General From That.

Anti-americanism Is A Pure Totalitarian Concept. The Very Notion Is Idiotic.

I Once Did A Three-hour Interview With Radio Oxford Only To Be Told The Microphone Hadn't Picked Me Up.

I Would Appear On Fox News More Easily Than I Would Npr.

The Internet Has Compromised The Quality Of Debate.

If You Do A Google Search, You Will Probably Read A Lot Of Stuff About How I Am Someone Who Wants To Kill All The Jews And Hates The United States.

It's Dangerous When People Are Willing To Give Up Their Privacy.

Greece Has Been, In Many Ways, A Partially Dysfunctional Society. For Example, The Wealthy Barely Pay Taxes... To An Extent, That's True Elsewhere, Including The United States, But It's Been Pretty Extreme In Greece.

In The Case Of The Environment, There's No One To Bail It Out.

As For My Own Views, They've Of Course Evolved Over The Years. This Conception Of 'Renouncing Beliefs' Is Very Odd, As If We're In Some Kind Of Religious Cult. I 'Renounce Beliefs' Practically Every Time I Think About The Topics Or Find Out What Someone Else Is Thinking.

If You Could Take A Subway From The Suburbs In Boston, Where I Live, To Downtown In 10 Minutes, That Improves Your Life Over Sitting In A Traffic Jam. People Should See That.

I Know Some Really Outstanding Turkish Journalists, And Have Been Pleased And Honored To Be Able To Join With Them A Few Times In Their Courageous Protests Against State Terror And Repression.

Nicaragua Dealt With The Problem Of Terrorism In Exactly The Right Way. It Followed International Law And Treaty Obligations. It Collected Evidence, Brought The Evidence To The Highest Existing Tribunal, The International Court Of Justice, And Received A Verdict - Which, Of Course, The U.s. Dismissed With Contempt.

Responsibility, I Believe, Accrues Through Privilege.

On The Internet, You Think Everything Is Going To Be Public.

I Don't Pay A Lot Of Attention To Polls.

I Personally Never Expected Anything Of Obama, And Wrote About It Before The 2008 Primaries. I Thought It Was Smoke And Mirrors.

Suppose I Criticise Iran. What Impact Does That Have? The Only Impact It Has Is In Fortifying Those Who Want To Carry Out Policies I Don't Agree With, Like Bombing.

The Republican Party Has Become Overwhelmingly So Extreme That It's Hardly A Traditional Political Party Anymore.

Rendition Is Just Sending People Abroad To Be Tortured.

Whatever The Reasons May Be, I Was Very Much Affected By Events Of The 1930s - The Spanish Civil War, For Example, Though I Was Barely Literate.

In 1979, Iranians Carried Out An Illegitimate Act: They Overthrew A Tyrant That The United States Had Imposed And Supported, And Moved On An Independent Path, Not Following U.s. Orders.

Immediately After 11 September, The U.s. Closed Down The Somali Charitable Network Al-barakaat On Grounds That It Was Financing Terror. This Achievement Was Hailed One Of The Great Successes Of The 'War On Terror.' In Contrast, Washington's Withdrawal Of Its Charges As Without Merit A Year Later Aroused Little Notice.

The Childcare Tax Credit Makes Some Sense.

As You Deal With More And More Complex Systems, It Becomes Harder And Harder To Find Deep And Interesting Properties.

Israel Is A Pretty Crazy State.

If You Care About Other People, You Might Try To Organize To Undermine Power And Authority. That's Not Going To Happen If You Care Only About Yourself.

It's A Good Idea To Revitalize Community Colleges, To Cut Back, To Modify The Student Loan Program So It Doesn't Go Through Banks.

Nato's Essentially Run By The United States.

In Every Country Except - Industrial Country Except The United States, The Government Uses Its Massive Purchasing Power To Negotiate Drug Prices. That's One Of The Reasons Prices Are So Much Higher In The United States Than In Other Countries.

In 1961, The United States Began Chemical Warfare In Vietnam, South Vietnam, Chemical Warfare To Destroy Crops And Livestock. That Went On For Seven Years. The Level Of Poison - They Used The Most Extreme Carcinogen Known: Dioxin. And This Went On For Years.

The West Bank Is Essentially Imprisoned.

Obama Did Organize A Great Large Number Of People And Many Enthusiastic People, What's Called In The Press 'Obama's Army.' But The Army Is Supposed To Take Instructions, Not To Implement, To Introduce, Develop Programs And Call On Its Own Candidate To Implement Them. That's Critical.