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Ocupation: Linguist

Life: b. December 7, 1928

Birthday: December 7

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In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was happening in South Africa and Namibia.

Topics: Country, Years, Media, Namibia

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If you sell me a car, we have perhaps made a good bargain for ourselves. But there are effects of this transaction on others, which we do not take into account. There is more pollution, the price of gas goes up, there is more congestion.

Topics: Car, Pollution, Made, Transactions, Congestion

Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.

Topics: Form, Harassment

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

Topics: Profit, Critique

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

Topics: Europe, Doubt, Facts, National Language

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

source: - KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 05, 2003.

Topics: Too Much, Study, Reason, Edification

Small changes can magnifiy. The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

Topics: Communication, Technology, Long, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal

The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet.

Topics: Communication, Sailing, Ships, Instant Communication, Big Changes

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

source: - Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.78, Soft Skull Press

Topics: Population

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

Topics: Democracy, Definitions, Interest

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.

Topics: Needs, Way

I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself.

Topics: Attitude, Taken, Thinking, Take Nothing For Granted, Taking Things For Granted

I'm into eating as little as possible... I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.

Topics: Littles, Use, Eating, Stoves

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....

source: - Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

Topics: Smart, People, Historical, Media Propaganda, Passivity Is

The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

Topics: Intellectual, World, Crime, Orwellian

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

Topics: Weed, Educational, Independent, Unschooling, Education System

With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased.

Topics: Government, Risk, Deregulation

The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

Topics: Kids, Racism, Police, Iniquity, Black People

The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that test tomorrow and it's something that you're not interested in, that's just the opposite of education. It's also harming teaching, because the teachers are evaluated by the results of the test.

Topics: Teacher, Teaching, Opposites

There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?

Topics: Educational, Struggle, Taken, Passing A Test, Educational System

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

source: - "We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân". Documentary, January 10, 2011.

Topics: Communication, Community, Culture

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.

source: - Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.54, Metropolitan Books

Topics: Powerful, Long, Hatred, Apathetic

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Topics: War, Law, President, Post War, Nuremberg

A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.

Topics: Sea, Pirate, Navy, Molestation, Linguists

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.

Topics: School, Reality, Democracy, Platitudes

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Topics: Hero, Doctrine, Neptune

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

Topics: Israel, People, Moral, Degeneration

...jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

Topics: Crush, Religious, People, Jingoism, Religious Fundamentalism

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Topics: Inspirational, Relationship, Freedom

It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.

Topics: Children, Real, Ignorance

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

Topics: Government, People, Archives

The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.

Topics: Corporations, Way, Messages, Linguists, Social Awareness

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Topics: War, Stopping, Way, War On Terror, Stop War

The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

Topics: Mean, Political, Growth, Social Democracy, Australia Day

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

source: - "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, www.imdb.com. 1992.

Topics: Education, Ignorance, Public Education

When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.

Topics: Sports, Football, Attitude, Jingoism, Competitive Sports

A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and you don't know whether in 5 minutes there is going to be an explosion across the street from some place up in the sky that you can't see. Somebody will be killed, and whoever is around will be killed, maybe you'll be injured if you're there. That is a terror weapon. It terrorizes villages, regions, huge areas. It's the most massive terror campaign going on by a long shot.

Topics: Sky, Long, Drones, Linguists, Long Shots

The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

Topics: Fate, Decision, Influence, General Public

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.

Topics: Courage, Freedom, Opportunity, Opportunity To Change

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

Topics: Country, Powerful, Political

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

Topics: War, Terrorism, Innocent, Civilians, War On Terror

A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

Topics: Risk, Cost, Modern

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

Topics: Party, United States, Illusion

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

Topics: Action, Responsible, Consequence

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.

Topics: Violence, Atrocities, Easy, 18th Century, Ethical Values

It is not a war. It is murder.

Topics: War, Murder

Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders..... At the very bottom of command, if you are lucky you can rent yourself to it and get a job , and if you are sufficiently propagandized you may even buy some of the junk they produce and so on...

Topics: Jobs, Order, Giving, Lucky You, Board Of Directors

Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist, that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level... Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I am opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

Topics: Thinking, Community, Political

One might ask why tobacco is legal and ***** not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story.

Topics: Marijuana, Stories, Answers

When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense.

Topics: Crush, Military, Land

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.

Topics: Effort, Trying, Succeed

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.

Topics: Historical, Perception, Society, Pathology, Social Being

Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.

Topics: Shopping, Community, Enemy, Participatory Democracy, Neoliberalism

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

Topics: Responsibility, Opportunity, Privilege

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

Topics: Chance, Obvious

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

Topics: Mean, Want, Propaganda, Media Propaganda, Support Our Troops

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.

source: - Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.102, Ronin Publishing

Topics: Believe, Future, Optimistic, Opportunity To Change, Optimism And Hope

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

Topics: Iraq, Numbers, People, War On Terror

The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about.

Topics: War, Mean, Support, Media Propaganda, Support Our Troops

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

Topics: Kings, Military, Party, Kings And Princes, Democracy Freedom

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

Topics: Worship, Danger, States

A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.

Topics: Creative, Needs, Arbitrary

So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.

Topics: Powerful, Race, Racing, Indigenous

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Topics: Mother, People, Drug

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

Topics: Party, Two, Interesting, World Population

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

Topics: Interesting, Long, Mars, Colonizing Mars

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.

Topics: Listening, Democracy, His Love

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

Topics: Leadership, Truth, Lying, Linguists, Smart People

Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.

Topics: School, Independent, Creating, Well Educated

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Topics: Peace, War, Needs

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

Topics: Essence, Anarchy, Conviction, Anarchism, Burden Of Proof

If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

Topics: Disappointment, Hard Work, Law, Chipping Away, Results Of Hard Work

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

Topics: Hypocrite, Media, Politics

The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.

Topics: Powerful, Demand, Death Penalty

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Topics: Peace, War, Office

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

Topics: Political, Propaganda, Establishment

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Topics: Personality, Psychology, Might

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

Topics: Littles, Information

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Topics: Lying, Hate, People, Hate And Fear

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Topics: Powerful, Hero, People

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Topics: Worry, Independence, Islam, Radical Islam

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Topics: Mean, Weather, Snow, Cold Weather

Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.

Topics: Real, Rotten, World, Footnotes, Economic Models

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Topics: Atheist, Book, Religion, Linguists, Famous Book

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.

Topics: Christian, Religious, Morning, Religious Fanatics

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

Topics: Israel, Fit, Crime, Gaza Strip

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Topics: Freedom, Hero, Survival, Democracy Freedom, Human Existence

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly.

Topics: Thinking, Able, Facts

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Topics: Population, Force, Consumption, World Population, Population Control

Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'—blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.

Topics: Party, Israel, Years, Dispensable, Hamas

French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.

Topics: Stars, Self, Intellectual, Stalinism, Lacan

Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

Topics: Progress, Unions, Force

Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.

Topics: Sports, Peace, Attitude

Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese.

Topics: Military, Kentucky, Numbers, Military Bases, Colombia

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.

Topics: Thinking, Names, Ideas, Being Done

One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average response on the part of Americans today is about 100,000. The official figure is about two million. The actual figure is probably three to four million. The people who conducted the study raised an appropriate question: What would we think about German political culture if, when you asked people today how many Jews died in the Holocaust, they estimated about 300,000? What would that tell us about German political culture?

Topics: War, Thinking, Average, Questions Asked, Political Culture

Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business…the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.

Topics: Military, Government, Ignorant, Public Affairs, Ignorant Masses

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

Topics: Education, School, Thinking, Access To Education, Affording

As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight

Topics: Long, Survival, Nuclear

I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society where you're trained to be a ruler - they both can run because they're financed by the same corporate institutions.

Topics: Running, Mean, Two, Political Influence, Secret Society

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.

Topics: School, Thinking, People

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Topics: Hero, Imagination, Forever, Censored, Censoring

If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.

Topics: Religious, Home, People, Learning Lessons

Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well...

Topics: Attitude, Media, Class

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

Topics: Democracy, Definitions, Principles, Autocracy

States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent to the extent that they're powerful, that's roughly accurate.

Topics: Country, Powerful, Government

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.

Topics: War, Block, Islamic, Air Force, Refugee Camps

Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.

Topics: Religious, Believe, Iran, Astonishing

The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to get people to stop investing in Iran, European companies pull out, China disregards it. You look at history and understand why - they've been around for 4,000 years, they have contempt for the barbarians, they just don't give a damn.

Topics: Military, Iran, Years, Don't Give A Damn

Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. The idea of 'free contract' between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else.

Topics: Views, Ideas, Errors, Colossal

Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'

Topics: Weapons, Fighter, Gypsy

In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it. All of these operations, they are terror operations.

Topics: Running, Campaigns, World

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

Topics: Technology, Government, Enemy

Governments are not representative.

Topics: Government, Dominant

Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities, so they should be associated with one another in free associations, and democracy of that kind should be the foundational elements of a more general free society.

Topics: People, Community, Democracy, Took For Granted

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles.

Topics: Imagination, Obstacles, Conformity, Search For Truth, Cooperatives

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

Topics: Government, Democracy, Corporations

The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.

Topics: Israel, Two, Debate

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

Topics: Country, Government, Effort, Policy Makers

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

Topics: Taken, People, Way, Changes In History, Social Change

Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate

Topics: Outcomes, Agendas, Debate

He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.

Topics: Media, Mind, Media Control

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.

Topics: Advertising

Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social order based on free association and democratic control, if we have the will to create it.

Topics: Technology, Men, Order

Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret.

Topics: Thinking, September 11, Secret, Innocent Victims

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.

Topics: Crush, Technology, Skulls

...as long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.

Topics: Meaningful, Long, Democracy

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.

Topics: War, Class, Understanding, Middle Class

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

Topics: Organization, Phones, World

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

Topics: New York, Order, Miracle

Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety, as long as the public remains passive and obedient.

Topics: Attitude, Safety, Long, Representing, Public Safety

The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of most of the world - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I.

Topics: War, Agency, Tasks

Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.

Topics: Meaningful, Self, Intellectual

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship

Topics: Giving, Want, Population

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Topics: Hands, People, Technique, Sure Thing, Privatization

One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its boot on your neck; another, a smaller power which happens to have its boot on other people's necks. I think that anyone in the Third World would be making a grave error if they succumbed to illusions about these matters

Topics: Thinking, Two, Errors

The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

source: - Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.241, Soft Skull Press

Topics: People, Democracy, Defense

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

Topics: Men, Want, Certain

State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.

Topics: Class, Lesson Learned, Lessons

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Topics: Nature, Powerful, Coercion, Social Relations

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Topics: Inspirational, Media, People, Media Propaganda

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Topics: Media, Public Opinion, Opinion

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

Topics: Car, People, Political, Toothpaste, Political Campaign

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.

Topics: Exercise, Trying, Succeed

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Topics: Sleep, Ideas, Psychology, Colorless

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Topics: Media, Politics, Anarchy, Uniformity

If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Topics: Arguing

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Topics: Positive, Meaningful, Steps

We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.

Topics: Military, Eyelashes, Names, Helicopters, Blackhawks

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Topics: Responsibility, Intelligent, Power, Servility

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

source: - William Blum (2006). “Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower”, p.13, Zed Books

Topics: Media, Political, Democracy, Mass Media, Media Propaganda

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.

Topics: Teacher, Opportunity, Self, Self Fulfillment

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.

Topics: History, Survival, Institutions, Repression

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Topics: Powerful, Political, Crime

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Topics: Creative, Tests, Inquiry

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

Topics: Smart, Thinking, Views

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Topics: Nature, Hero, Believe, American Hegemony

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Topics: Effort, Trying, Technique

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Topics: Hero, Comforting, Anarchy

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Topics: Fascists, Dictatorship, Rational

If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.

source: - Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.138, The New Press

Topics: Thinking, Names, Mit, Listen To Me

Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For the first time Bolivia is becoming democratic. So it's therefore bitterly hated by the West, which despises democracy, because it's much too dangerous.

Topics: White, Democracy, Example, Hydrocarbons, Reserves

The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar.

Topics: Creativity, May, Bears, Resemblance

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Topics: Hero, Ideas, Should

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

Topics: Animal, Language, Theory

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

Topics: Thinking, Challenges, Hierarchy

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

Topics: Doe, Human Nature, Certain

...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present?

Topics: Media, Government, Political, Advertisers

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

Topics: Latin, Moving, Years, Latin America

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

Topics: People, Violence

What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society.

Topics: Powerful, Exercise, Political, Economic Globalization

The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.

Topics: Reflection, Quests, Way, Terrible Events, Hiroshima

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

Topics: Ignorance, Knowing, Looks, Bewilderment, Increasing Knowledge

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

Topics: Rights, Issues, Abuse

The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.

Topics: Book, Winning, Track, Right Track

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Topics: Design, Democracy, Principles, Direct Democracy, Neoliberalism

If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect.

Topics: Believe, Mean, Class

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Topics: Law, Generations, Use, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

source: - David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky (2001). “Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky”, p.145, Pluto Press

Topics: Truth, Brain

The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

Topics: Keys, Issues, Political, Social Control, Important Issues

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.

Topics: Rich, Economics, Poor

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

Topics: Offended You, Offending, People

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Topics: Thinking, People, Force

The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.

source: - "On Fake News and Other Societal Woes". Interview with Irene, chomsky.info. December 7, 2005.

Topics: Thinking, People, Indoctrination

It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.

Topics: Lying, Hours, Minutes, One Minute

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

source: - Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.217, Soft Skull Press

Topics: Freedom, Power, Government, Stalinism, Linguistics

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

Topics: Risk, Principles, Cost

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.

source: - "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, www.imdb.com. 1992.

Topics: Views, Freedom Of Speech, Favors, Goebbels

If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.

Topics: Voting, Would Be, Illegal

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

source: - "Animating Noam Chomsky: French Director Michel Gondry on New Film “Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?". Interview with Michel Gondry, www.democracynow.org. December 3, 2013.

Topics: Mind, World, Willing, Puzzling, Replica

The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.

source: - Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.69, Soft Skull Press

Topics: Reality, Goal, World, Undesirable

What's the point of being better than someone else?

The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you've got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus.

source: - "Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian". Book by David Barsamian, chomsky.info. 1992.

Topics: Lying, Mean, Media, Media Control, Press Conferences

You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies".

source: - "Language and Politics". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1988.

Topics: Truth, Independent, Issues, Independent Thought

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

source: - Noam Chomsky (2012). “Occupy”, p.19, Penguin UK

Topics: Yield, Concentration Of Wealth, Giving, Accelerate

It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

Topics: Powerful, People, Ironic

The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.

source: - Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei Masakazu (2015). “Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force”, p.29, Routledge

Topics: United States, World, Terrorism, International Terrorism

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

source: - Interview with John Pilger on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

Topics: Inspirational, Relationship, Freedom, Freedom Of Expression, Freedom Of The Press

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.

Topics: People, Trying, Care, If You Care

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