Noam Chomsky Sayings
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune .
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the ( U.S. ) media.
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions.
The U.S. is the only country condemned by the World Court for international terrorism-for "the unlawful use of force" for political ends
Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled
As long as people are marginalized and distracted (they) have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody’s supposed to think that. … Since there’s no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don’t pay any attention to what’s going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl….
…(Sports) offers people to pay attention to, that’s of no importance… that keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives, that they might have some idea of doing something about… but the point is, it does make sense! It’s a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority, and group cohesion behind leadership elements… and you know, in fact, it’s training in irrational jingoism
Noam Chomsky is an anarchist. But his views on the US foreign policy is refreshing…especially critical of the US’ so-called Democracy (DEMONocracy)