black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Noam Chomsky

It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Bankruptcy Business Debt Design Individual Life Out Rest Reveal Student Trap
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Cannot Consumption Control Distract Population
The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Almost Episode Insane Truth Whole
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Aggression Common Death Develop Frighten Genital People Sense
The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Bank Central Commitment Country Employment First Keep Only Up
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

Council Far Gone International Law Observe Reagan Revolution Security States Under United Veto
There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Anger Country Dislike Dissatisfaction Hatred Poil Repeat
The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Cold Country Figure Lead Professor Scholarship War
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

Conversation Doctrine Either Every New Repeat Same Say Something Time
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

Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Anymore Become Extreme Hard Overwhelmingly Party Political Republican Tradition
All 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 CHOMSKY

All Constant Cultural Decision Helpless Make Over People Place Pressure Propaganda Ratify Role System
I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Attribute Conceive Experience Foreign Lot Policy Useful
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Aspect History Human Nature More Nothing Principal Product Psychological Relation Remove Social
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

Hero May People Primary Stood Think
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Choose Comfort Illusion Live World

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Noam Chomsky Quotes