He who controls the media controls the minds of the public. Noam Chomsky More Quotes by Noam Chomsky More Quotes From Noam Chomsky Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from various oral and folk traditions (many of them going far back) in the Hellenistic period. That was one of several currents, of which the collection that formed the New Testament was another. Noam Chomsky assuming tradition together The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern. Noam Chomsky issues class commitment Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms. Noam Chomsky drug-cartels united-states cutting Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds of possibilities, including for coercion. In China, technology is used to control and coerce. Here too, to an extent, but not to that extent. Noam Chomsky technology coercion way There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media. Noam Chomsky requirements media fundamentals Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy. Noam Chomsky taught space believe The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. Noam Chomsky ignorant running ideas Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social order based on free association and democratic control, if we have the will to create it. Noam Chomsky technology men order Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.' Noam Chomsky gypsy fighter weapons 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 causes government lying It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick. Noam Chomsky sticks war people Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no matter how many guns you have. Noam Chomsky gun doe hands Suppose that I see a hungry child in the street, and I am able to offer the child some food. Am I morally culpable if I refuse to do so? Am I morally culpable if I choose not to do what I easily can about the fact that 1000 children die every hour from easily preventable disease, according to UNICEF? Or the fact that the government of my own "free and open society" is engaged in monstrous crimes that can easily be mitigated or terminated? Is it even possible to debate these questions? Noam Chomsky disease government children In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for that reason determined, in their words, that "we must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years." Noam Chomsky government intellectual years North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear weapons, the US should stop carrying out hostile military maneuvers on the North Korean border. The US immediately rejected it. Modernization program is a very clear example of how security doesn't matter. There is no gain in security but massive overkill of the adversary's deterrent capacity. The only consequence of it is to elicit the likelihood of a preemptive attack. And a preemptive attack leads to a nuclear winter world. Noam Chomsky military winter world The Bush administration has created an unimaginable catastrophe in Iraq. This should've been one of the easiest military occupations in history and they succeeded in turning it into one of the worst military disasters in history. They can't control it and it's almost impossible for them to get out for reasons you can't discuss in the United States because to discuss the reasons why they can't get out would be to concede the reasons why they invaded. Noam Chomsky united-states iraq military Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and domination are necessary. They have to demonstrate, with powerful argument, that that conclusion is correct. If they cannot, then the institutions they defend should be considered illegitimate. How one should react to illegitimate authority depends on circumstances and conditions: there are no formulas. Noam Chomsky powerful expression views Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market. Noam Chomsky miracle new-york order Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That’s just fine. It’s just the poor who aren’t supposed to cooperate. Noam Chomsky powerful working-together directors In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times. Noam Chomsky social class facts
