“The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.”
Power
“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.”
FearAll Quotes by Noam Chomsky
“I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.”
Age“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.”
Business“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.”
Freedom“The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.”
Government“If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.”
Government“The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.”
Fear“If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.”
Amazing“The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.”
History“We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.”
War“The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.”
History“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.”
Imagination“Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.”
Nature“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.”
Fear“As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.”
Science“Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.”
Fear“In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.”
Government“Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.”
Power“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
Freedom“I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.”
Power