Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
-
-
I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
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.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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