That's a large part of the source of the gun culture. You have to have a gun when you go into Starbucks, because who knows what's going to happen. It just doesn't happen in other countries. Noam Chomsky More Quotes by Noam Chomsky More Quotes From Noam Chomsky If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope. Noam Chomsky assuming guarantees hope States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power Noam Chomsky violent interest states The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow. Noam Chomsky cages beast dangerous The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is. Noam Chomsky democratic democracy needs The people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace. Noam Chomsky palestinian land people The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy. Noam Chomsky iraq gains world The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries. Noam Chomsky couple uplifting country There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. Noam Chomsky privilege law believe There's one white powder which is by far the most lethal known, it's called sugar. . . . The Caribbean back in the 18th century was a soft drug producer: sugar, rum, tobacco, chocolate. And in order to do it, they had to enslave Africans. Noam Chomsky chocolate white order Women taking care of children . . . it makes sense to pay them for that work . . . they should be paid for it, but that requires tax payments. And the same is true about protection of the environment. Noam Chomsky care pay children The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them. Noam Chomsky agents responsibility trying The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it. Noam Chomsky terrorism ends way After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators. Noam Chomsky protest october firsts The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects. Noam Chomsky responsibility ideas fall As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime. Noam Chomsky nuclear iran trying The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect. Noam Chomsky floating intellectual may Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real. Noam Chomsky real college rights Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired. Noam Chomsky struggle country america I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop. Noam Chomsky country world thinking In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on state coercion, though that's true too, but also in terms of individual relations. The United States comes closer to classlessness in terms of interpersonal relations than virtually any society. Noam Chomsky united-states mean country
