Noam Chomsky quotes

[McGiver]

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

[McGiver]

The more you can increase FEAR of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you CONTROL all the people.


Fear is to control.

[Pyraxis]

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Think I'll steal that.

[McGiver]

Why don't you google a Chomsky quote and share one.

[Queen Victoria]

Here's some quotes I didn't even have to look up or even know who he is.

Where's my coffee?
It's raining right now.
Please sit down.
Are you sure?

[McGiver]

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.

Vote and consume

[Pyraxis]

Why don't you google a Chomsky quote and share one.

Okay.

The U.S. and its Western allies are sure to do whatever they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world. To understand why, it is only necessary to look at the studies of Arab opinion conducted by U.S. polling agencies. Though barely reported, they are certainly known to planners. They reveal that by overwhelming majorities, Arabs regard the U.S. and Israel as the major threats they face: the U.S. is so regarded by 90% of Egyptians, in the region generally by over 75%. Some Arabs regard Iran as a threat: 10%. Opposition to U.S. policy is so strong that a majority believes that security would be improved if Iran had nuclear weapons -- in Egypt, 80%. Other figures are similar. If public opinion were to influence policy, the U.S. not only would not control the region, but would be expelled from it, along with its allies, undermining fundamental principles of global dominance.

[McGiver]

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

The duopoly representing corporations and the oligarchy.

[Pyraxis]

"While understanding the world may be good for the soul (not meant to be disparaging), it doesn’t help anyone else, or oneself very much either for that matter, unless it leads to action."

[Pyraxis]

"Any person who is intellectually alive changes his ideas. If anyone at a university is teaching the same thing they were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead, or they haven’t been thinking."

[McGiver]

He's got thousands of quotes.  He's a brilliant mind.

[odeon]

I've always been somewhat weary of him. He's got a great mind but he's something of a Randy in politics.

[Pyraxis]

What do you mean by a Randy?

[odeon]

Our Randy. The ginseng one.

[McGiver]

He cuts to the chase.  Exposes the lies. Believes that he system cannot be reformed.  Is an anarchist.