If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
-
-
If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
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 -
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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 -
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
NOAM CHOMSKY






