Noam Chomsky Quotes And Sayings

You Can Live Within The Institutions And Work Hard To Change Them.

History Shows That, More Often Than Not, Loss Of Sovereignty Leads To Liberalisation Imposed In The Interests Of The Powerful.

I Don't See Anything That's Come Out On Wikileaks That Was A Legitimate Secret.

The U.s. - The Idea That The U.s. Has Introduced And Imposed Principles Of International Law, That's Hardly Even A Joke. The United States Has Even Gone So Far As To Veto Security Council Resolutions Calling On All States To Observe International Law. That Was In The 1980s Under Reagan.

What's Important In Libya Is, First Of All, It Has A Good Deal Of Oil. A Lot Of The Country Is Unexplored; There May Be A Lot More. And It's Very High-quality Oil, So Very Valuable.

By Most Accounts, Aristide Is The Most Popular Figure In Haiti.

There Has Been A Huge Attack Against Private Sector Unions. Actually, That's Been Going On Since The Second World War.

When Reagan Left Office, He Was The Most Unpopular Living President, Apart From Nixon, Even Below Carter. If You Look At His Years In Office, He Was Not Particularly Popular. He Was More Or Less Average. He Severely Harmed The American Economy.

Egypt Is The Second-largest Recipient Over A Long Period Of U.s. Military And Economic Aid. Israel Is First.

The Doctrine That Everything Is Fine As Long As The Population Is Quiet, That Applies In The Middle East, Applies In Central America, It Applies In The United States.

Obama Himself Has Been Highly Supportive Of Mubarak.

Our Only Real Hope For Democracy Is That We Get The Money Out Of Politics Entirely And Establish A System Of Publicly Funded Elections.

I Have Been - I Have Spoken In Bir Zeit A Number Of Times.

The Tea Party Movement Itself Is Maybe 15, 20 Percent Of The Electorate. It's Relatively Affluent, White, Nativist. You Know, It Has Rather Traditional Nativist Streaks To It. But What Is Much More Important, I Think, Is The - Is Its Outrage.

In The 1960s, There Was A Point, 1968, '69, When There Was A Very Strong Antiwar Movement Against The War In Vietnam. But It's Worth Remembering That The War In Vietnam Started - An Outright War Started In 1962.

Control Is The Source Of Strategic Power.

Right After 9-11, As Far As I Know, One Newspaper In The United States Had The Integrity To Investigate Opinion In The Muslim World: The 'Wall Street Journal.'

Terrorists Regard Themselves As A Vanguard. They're Trying To Mobilize Others To Their Cause. I Mean, Every Specialist On Terrorism Knows That.

I Have Never Really Thought That The Left Was Much In 'Array' As Far As Political Purposes Were Concerned.

The Public Is Strongly In Favor Of The Kyoto Protocols, So Strongly In Favor That A Majority Of Bush Voters Thought That He Was In Favor Of It. They Are Simply Unaware.

If The United States Loses The Economic Weapons Of Control, It Is Very Much Weakened.

American Imperialism Is Often Traced To The Takeover Of Cuba, Puerto Rico, And Hawaii In 1898.

When Israel Invaded Lebanon In 1982, The U.n. Vetoed Several Resolutions Right Away, Calling For An End To The Fighting And So On, And That Was A Hideous Invasion.

Descriptive Grammar Is An Attempt To Give An Account Of What The Current System Is For Either A Society Or An Individual, Whatever You Happen To Be Studying.

My Speculation Is That The U.s. Does Not Want To Establish The Principle That It Has To Defer To Some Higher Authority Before Carrying Out The Use Of Violence.

Chinese Military Spending Is Carefully Monitored By The United States.

In Some Respects, South African Apartheid Was More Vicious Than Israeli Practices, And In Some Respects The Opposite Is True.

In The 1930s, Unemployed Working People Could Anticipate That Their Jobs Would Come Back.

Right After The Assassination Of Osama Bin Laden, Amid All The Cheers And Applause, There Were A Few Critical Comments Questioning The Legality Of The Act.

Popular Struggles To Bring About A Freer And More Just Society Have Been Resisted By Violence And Repression, And Massive Efforts To Control Opinion And Attitudes. Over Time, However, They Have Met With Considerable Success, Even Though There Is A Long Way To Go, And There Is Often Regression.

There Is Every Likelihood That The Jihadi Movement, Much Of It Highly Critical Of Bin Laden, Could Have Been Split And Undermined After 9/11.

If You Get To A Point Where The Existing Institutions Will Not Bend To The Popular Will, You Have To Eliminate The Institutions.

For Many Of The World's Conflicts, It Is Difficult Even To Conjure Up A Feasible Settlement.

In September 1993, President Clinton Presided Over A Handshake Between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin And Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat On The White House Lawn - The Climax Of A 'Day Of Awe,' As The Press Described It.

Any Dictator Would Admire The Uniformity And Obedience Of The U.s. Media.

Perhaps The Most Striking Assault On The Foundations Of Traditional Liberties Is A Little-known Case Brought To The Supreme Court By The Obama Administration, Holder V. Humanitarian Law Project.

The Very Design Of Neoliberal Principles Is A Direct Attack On Democracy.

In The Late 1960s, The Masses Were Supposed To Be Passive, Not Entering Into The Public Arena And Having Their Voices Heard.

The Prescription For Endless War Poses A Far Greater Danger To Americans Than Perceived Enemies Do, For Reasons The Terrorist Organisations Understand Very Well.

Washington Still Refuses To Provide Evidence To Support The Claims In 1990 That A Huge Iraqi Military Build-up On The Saudi Border Justified War.

Intellectuals Are In A Position To Expose The Lies Of Governments, To Analyze Actions According To Their Causes And Motives And Often Hidden Intentions.

Mr. Mijanovi And Those Associated With Him Are The Hope And The Conscience Of The Yugoslav Revolution.

The Vietnamese See Their History As An Unending Series Of Struggles Of Resistance To Aggression, By The Chinese, The Mongols, The Japanese, The French, And Now The Americans.

There's Never Been Anything Like The So-called Vietnam Syndrome: It's Mostly A Fabrication.

The American Claim That The Bombing Of North Vietnam Was Directed Against Military Targets Does Not Withstand Direct Investigation.

The Neo-cons Constitute A Radical Reactionary Fringe Of The Planning Spectrum, But The Spectrum Is Narrow.

My Own Feeling Is That One Should Refuse To Participate In Any Activity That Implements American Aggression - Thus Tax Refusal, Draft Refusal, Avoidance Of Work That Can Be Used By The Agencies Of Militarism And Repression, All Seem To Me Essential.

There Was Unprecedented Elite Condemnation Of The Plans To Invade Iraq. Sensible Analysts Were Able To Perceive That The Enterprise Carried Significant Risks For U.s. Interests, However Conceived.

I Admire Ralph Nader And Denis Kucinich Very Much, And Insofar As They Bring Up Issues And Carry Out An Educational And Organisational Function - That's Important, And Fine, And I Support It.

The Call For Debt Cancellation Is Welcome, But Debt Does Not Just Go Away.