black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Noam Chomsky

That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Citizen Do Government Law Secret State Suppose
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
Sometimes I lose my temper.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Lose My Sometimes Temper
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
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Citizen Enemy Government Man Own Protect Regard Themselves
It 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 CHOMSKY

Contempt Course Court Evidence Existence Follow Highest International Justice Obligation Receive
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Choice Country Impse Invade Regime Stability
Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Country Down Good Intimidate Look Unlike Way Wrong
Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Destruction Mass Mean Missile Remember Weapon
There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Anything Been Call Fabrication Mostly never Syndrome
The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Childcare Credit Make Sense Some Tax
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Education Internet Very Meaningful Participation Positive Society
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Association Assumption Classical Consequence Deeper Diversity Free Intervention Liberal Need State True
You 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 CHOMSKY

Idea Important Listen Obedience Order Otherwise Place Spread
It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Argue Coul Like Neuroscientist Plausibly Rather View
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Few Go Make Mirror Monster People Person Savage Say

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Noam Chomsky Quotes