States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
-
-
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
NOAM CHOMSKY -
The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
NOAM CHOMSKY