Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
NOAM CHOMSKYNATO’s essentially run by the United States.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
-
-
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
NOAM CHOMSKY -
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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 -
In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
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.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
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.
NOAM CHOMSKY