Author of quotes: Noam Chomsky

I've always disliked people who are called good speakers, those who are able to turn the audience on. If you have this ability, you should suppress it.

In fact, one of the principles is probably the easiest, is the principle of universality, that is, if something is good for me, it's good for you, and if something is bad for you, it is bad for me. Any worthy of the attention of the moral code it contains in one form or another.

Psychotherapists know the guilt hook, which is easy to hook even the strongest person. Owning a gaff, as a rafter, directs the mass of logs in the thread you want. If the media make people believe in their own guilt about everyone around him misery, then it is easier to distract him from the struggle for economic and political rights. Self-deprecation leads to apathy and inaction.

The war in Iraq is an instructive case. She was sold to a frightened public under the usual pretext of self-defense against the awe-inspiring threat to survival: "the only question" proclaimed George W. Bush and Tony Blair, was - stop the Saddam Hussein their programs of development of weapons of mass destruction. When the only question was the wrong answer, government rhetoric is easily replaced by "the pursuit of democracy," and worked out relevant to this opinion of course; all routine. Later, when the scale of the US defeat in Iraq, it became difficult to hide, the government quietly admitted that it was clear from the beginning. In 2007-2008, the administration officially announced that a final decision must guarantee the US military bases and the right to conduct combat operations, and must give privileges to the rich energy sector to U.S. investors - the requirement, which had later to be abandoned before the face of the Iraqi resistance.

... unfortunately, no one is trying to disperse two dark clouds gathering at the time, as we discuss the world order: this is a nuclear war and an environmental disaster, literally threatening the survival of the species. Just the opposite. Both these threats are becoming more menacing and growing.

They (the Power holders) the goal is achieved. On Saturday, the younger generation goes to the Mall instead of the library.

Politics is the shadow cast by business on society.

Decent people are not supposed to remember the reaction of Mexico, when Kennedy tried to organize collective intervention against Cuba in 1961: one diplomat explained that Mexico could not join because "if we publicly declare that Cuba is a threat to our security, forty million Mexicans will die laughing".

The so-called "agreement on free trade" is one of such techniques undermine democracy. Their purpose is to transfer decision-making relating to the life and aspirations of the people, in the hands of private tyrannies, working in secret and without public supervision and control.

The material and ideological results contribute to the clarification of understanding of what "democracy" abroad should reflect the model, which is sought in the United States: directed from the top of the form control when the public play the role of spectators; prevention of the public into the arena of decision making where should be expelled "ignorant and climbing into their business outsiders", so according to most modern theories of democracy.

Reading is not a simple turning of pages. This meditation over the written notes in the margins, the mental comparison with the other books, the search for new ideas or images. Does not make sense to read if you just "swallow" a book and ten minutes later forget about it. Reading books is exercise for your mind, exercises for the mind, developing imagination.

A hypocrite is one who applies to others standards that he refuses to apply to himself.