Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. "
Noam Chomsky
Way
Dictatorship
Egypt
Related Quotes:
" When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles. "
Noam Chomsky
Got
Done
Fun
" Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin. "
Noam Chomsky
Possible
Communist
Pretty
" Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil. "
Noam Chomsky
Home
Technology
Powerful
" In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years. "
Noam Chomsky
Years
Vietnam
Poison
" It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination. "
Noam Chomsky
Others
World
America
" 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. "
Noam Chomsky
Nature
Fear
Believe
" The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that. "
Noam Chomsky
Danger
Beyond
Own
" I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had. "
Noam Chomsky
Any
Them
Skills
" As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less. "
Noam Chomsky
Leader
Jewish
More
" With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. "
Noam Chomsky
Socialism
Injustice
Capitalism
" Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. "
Noam Chomsky
Economic
Social
Fact
" The childcare tax credit makes some sense. "
Noam Chomsky
Credit
Tax
Some
" Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. "
Noam Chomsky
Quality
Liberal
Growth
" For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. "
Noam Chomsky
Even
Difficult
World
" The West Bank is essentially imprisoned. "
Noam Chomsky
Imprisoned
West
Essentially
" Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. "
Noam Chomsky
Effort
Will
Never
" By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf. "
Noam Chomsky
Curious
World
Energy
" 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
Intentions
Hidden
Actions
" Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack. "
Noam Chomsky
International
Law
Attack
" The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free. "
Noam Chomsky
Education
Achievement
Rich
" Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism. "
Noam Chomsky
Justice
People
Now
" In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions. "
Noam Chomsky
Time
America
Democracy
" Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to. "
Noam Chomsky
See
Need
Attention
" It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks. "
Noam Chomsky
Back
Good
Community
" Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it. "
Noam Chomsky
Nobody
Say
Study
" In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors. "
Noam Chomsky
Privilege
White
American
" Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. "
Noam Chomsky
Rich
Best
Education
" My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence. "
Noam Chomsky
Violence
Authority
Principle
" Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. "
Noam Chomsky
Very
Pure
Concept
" Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat. "
Noam Chomsky
Food
Care
You