The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
NOAM CHOMSKYStates are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf 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 CHOMSKYThe money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
NOAM CHOMSKYEducation 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.
NOAM CHOMSKYGovernments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
NOAM CHOMSKYI like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
NOAM CHOMSKYA war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
NOAM CHOMSKYAll 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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
NOAM CHOMSKY