Europe Quotes by Noam Chomsky

U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.

— Noam Chomsky

The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.

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The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

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Africa's a wreck and it's not because it was hit by an asteroid. It's a wreck largely because it was hit by…

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I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

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The U.S. is different from Europe and other industrial countries.

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English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the…

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In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a…

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The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very…

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Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true…

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Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've…

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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain…

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In fact, what were called the socialist countries in Eastern Europe were the most anti-socialist systems in the world. Workers had more…

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You never really saw the racism in Europe in the past because it was so homogeneous. When everyone is blonde and blue-eyed,…

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CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has…

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China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that…

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In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe...…

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That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the…

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There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age…

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There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves…

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In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think…

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Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the…

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“It's amazing in Europe: Europe has become extraordinarily colonized culturally by the United States, to an extent that is almost unbelievable―Europeans aren't…

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There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and…

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“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be…

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In fact, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 bans militarization. Potential adversaries of the US, and even its allies, are so far…

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There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with…

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If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages…

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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…

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For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff…

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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a 'third force,'…

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Actually, my first article, it wasn't about the anarchists; it was about the fall of Barcelona and the spread of fascism over…

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Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit…

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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The…

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The Left, in a general sense, is very much atomized. We live in highly atomized societies. People are pretty much alone; it's…

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The racism in Europe takes the form of anti-immigrant extremism - which is bad enough here - I think it's hard to…

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There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of…

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In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more…

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Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in…

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Europe is being subjected to the kinds of programs that devastated Latin America for many years. Latin America has thrown them out…

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