black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.

Noam Chomsky

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Bible Book Genocidal History Most One
I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Arrogance Atheist Business Child Dry Example Heaven Hope Join Lecture New Some
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Applied Country Hang However Law Nuremberg President
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Country Disaster Ulter War
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Ceausescu Country Dare Dictator Eastern Wordt
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Among Control Democrat Ensure Industrial Nation System United
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Create Generation Language Law Manner Principle Process Use
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
I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Bomb Chungking Country No On People Position Relative Scale Stand Took
Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Civil Disobedience Fun No
Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Creation Even Free Interpretation Involve Process Use
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Against Argument I Meed Use Violence
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

Democracy Election Establish Fun Fund Hope Money Politics Public Real
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

Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Development Easier Internet Library Much Undoubtfully
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Accomplice Antic Gradually Hardly Most Nixon Reveal Surprise

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Noam Chomsky Quotes