Noam Chomsky Quotes - Page 42

• The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political stand, so they have to destroy what they call Obamacare. This is now not all the Republicans, it's a wing of the Republican Party, which is called conservative but in fact is just deeply reactionary.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Wings, Obamacare

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In a moment of crisis, of which there are all too many, Russian military planners may conclude that lacking a deterrent, the only hope of survival is a first strike - which means the end for all of us.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Mean, Survival

  "Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union". Interview with George Yancy, www.nytimes.com. July 5, 2017.

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• Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.

  Noam Chomsky

  College, Taught, Environment

  Source: www.madre.org

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• If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each acting as an individual to maximize his own wealth in the market.

  Noam Chomsky

  Political, Acting, Taught

  Source: www.madre.org

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• My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

  Noam Chomsky

  Linguistics, Theoretical

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Allowing an independent and sovereign Iraq could be a nightmare for the United States. It would mean that it would be Shi'ite-dominated, at least if it's minimally democratic. It would continue to improve relations with Iran, just what the United States doesn't want to see. And beyond that, right across the border in Saudi Arabia where most of Saudi oil is, there happens to be a large Shi'ite population, probably a majority.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Independent, Iran

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree of autonomy. You can imagine a kind of a loose Shi'ite alliance in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, controlling most of the world's oil and independent of the United States. And much worse, although Europe can be intimidated by the United States, China can't. It's one of the reasons, the main reasons, why China is considered a threat. We're back to the Mafia principle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Independent, Rights

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on its own. It does not get intimidated when Uncle Sam shakes his fist. That's scary.

  Noam Chomsky

  Uncles, Moving, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There's a split in the US about how this [split] will be resolved. The main point to look at is the split within the Republican Party. The Republican establishment, and Wall Street, and the bankers, and the corporate executives and so on, they don't want this. They don't want it at all. It's the part of the base that is mobilized that wants it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wall, Party, Bankers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Republicans went so far to the right that they just can't get votes. They've become a dedicated party of the very rich and the corporate sector.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Vote, Republican

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements of the country that have always been there but were kind of marginal to the political system, for example, religious extremists.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Religious, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The United States is off the international spectrum in religious extremism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, United States, Spectrum

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Couple, Party

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor, and they wanted him in. But the base didn't want him.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wall, Interesting, Want

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to destroy them with massive propaganda attack ads and so on. It was one after another, each one crazier than the last.

  Noam Chomsky

  Support, Gears, Lasts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm sorry to say it has some historical analogs. It's kind of reminiscent of what happened in Germany in the late Weimar years.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sorry, Years, Historical

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized.

  Noam Chomsky

  Financial, Republican, Wealth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Hysteria, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, Borders, Littles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Care, Littles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

  Noam Chomsky

  Usa, People, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the worst atrocities in the past decade have been in the Congo, the Eastern Congo, where maybe 5 million people have been killed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, People, Atrocities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The main mineral in your cellphone, coltan [a black metallic ore], comes from the Eastern Congo. Multinational corporations are there exploiting the very rich mineral resources of the region. A lot of them are backing militias which are fighting one other to gain control of the resources or a piece of the resources.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fighting, Black, Pieces

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war in Africa. Well, how many people know about this?

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Uganda, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And that's quite generally true.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, People, Atrocities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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