Noam Chomsky Quotes
As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.
Chomsky, Noam. Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies. South End Press, 1989.
He was tried and executed in secret in 1953.
His last name was withheld for security purposes.
A large part of German propaganda was directed not only to Germans and the Axis, but one target was Englishmen and Americans. One objective was to try and cause strains in the amazingly strong British-American Alliance. In this cartoon Roosevelt—the large adult figure—is leading the small child, Churchill, by the hand. Many British were sensitive about this possibility.
Trump had a psychological characteristic that worked to his disadvantage in his political endeavors. He could not abide being criticized or attacked. In this case, some of his proposed policies coincided with those of Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and leaders of his campaign staff had business relationships in Russia. Hillary Clinton, in the the last of the 2016 Presidential debates, had referred to him as “Putin’s puppet”, and Trump blurted out this quotation while she was still talking as it was her turn in the debate.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
