Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
NOAM CHOMSKYNow that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
NOAM CHOMSKYNationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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 CHOMSKYThey 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 CHOMSKYThe Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
NOAM CHOMSKYNineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
NOAM CHOMSKYUp until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
NOAM CHOMSKYBy and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
NOAM CHOMSKYNicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
NOAM CHOMSKYI mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
NOAM CHOMSKY