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“You know better than I do what has to be done, the kind of problems you face. Just got ahead and do what has to be done. Don’t be intimidated, don’t be frightened, and recognize that the future can be in our hands if we’re willing to grasp it.”
— Noam Chomsky, Corporate business models are hurting American universities
Tagged: Get To Work, Your Mission, Your Life Purpose, Your Meaning, Inspirational
“The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.”
— Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Bill Maher(11.10.04)
Tagged: Iraq, War
“In the past, the United States has sometimes, kind of sardonically, been described as a one-party state: the business party with two factions called Democrats and Republicans. That’s no longer true. It’s still a one-party state, the business party. But it only has one faction. The faction is moderate Republicans, who are now called Democrats. There are virtually no moderate Republicans in what’s called the Republican Party and virtually no liberal Democrats in what’s called the Democratic [sic] Party. It’s basically a party of what would be moderate Republicans and similarly, Richard Nixon would be way at the left of the political spectrum today. Eisenhower would be in outer space. There is still something called the Republican Party, but it long ago abandoned any pretence of being a normal parliamentary party. It’s in lock-step service to the very rich and the corporate sector and has a catechism that everyone has to chant in unison, kind of like the old Communist Party. The distinguished conservative commentator, one of the most respected – Norman Ornstein – describes today’s Republican Party as, in his words, ‘a radical insurgency – ideologically extreme, scornful of facts and compromise, dismissive of its political opposition’ – a serious danger to the society, as he points out.”
— Noam Chomsky, Chomsky: The U.S. behaves nothing like a democracy
Tagged: The United States, US Politics
“Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.”
— Noam Chomsky, Powers and Prospects
Tagged: Rich People
“One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story.”
— Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy
Tagged: Marijuana, Tobacco, Weed, Legalization of Marijuana
“Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.”
— Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
Tagged: Science
“The United States is like a shattered peasant society.”
— Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
Tagged: Opinions, Political Landscapes, Limited Debate
“What are called opinions ‘on the left’ and ‘on the right’ in the media represent only a limited spectrum of debate, which reflects the range of needs of private power—but there’s essentially nothing beyond those ‘acceptable’ positions.”
— Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
Tagged: Opinions, Political Landscapes, Limited Debate
“The countries that have developed economically are those which were not colonized by the West; every country that was colonized by the West is a total wreck.”
— Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
Tagged: Power, The West, Colonization
“Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it's necessary to distort history and make it look as if Great Men did everything - that's part of how you teach people they can't do anything, they're helpless, they just have to wait for some Great Man to come along and do it for them.”
— Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
Tagged: Power