iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Control of the oil...is a major lever of world control against your enemies. And US enemies are Europe & Asia. Those are the regions of the world that could move towards independence. One of the ways to prevent that is to keep your hand on the spigot. It was understood long ago.

111

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It is also useful to remember that Christian Zionism long precedes Jewish Zionism, and both movements are animated by a kind of messianic providentialism: God has a design for the world, and we, the chosen people, are the agents of the divine mission. (1/2)

122

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I don’t think the Pentagon was that interested in the [Gulf] war. Armies usually aren’t interested in wars. They like preparation for war. But they have an understandable reluctance to fight a war. (1/2)

111

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

#WSJ "The attack took place on Saturday, which is a school day in Iran."

010

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

[I]nto the 60s,Western leaders feared that Russia's economic growth would inspire "radical nationalism" elsewhere, & that others too might be stricken by the disease that infected Russia in 1917, when it became unwilling "to complement the industrial economies of the West,"... (1/2)

131

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

[S]enior diplomat David Bruce was a leading advocate for European unification in the Kennedy years, urging Washington to “treat a uniting Europe as an equal partner”—but following America’s lead. He saw “dangers” if Europe “struck off on its own, seeking to play a role independent of the US.” (1/2)

111

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

In the most sober establishment journal, Foreign Affairs, Samuel Huntington wrote in 1999: “While the US regularly denounces various countries as ‘rogue states’, in the eyes of many countries it is becoming the rogue superpower...the single greatest external threat to their societies.”

141

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

IPCC reports are consensus documents. Hence, they tend to err on the side of understatement. [The 2023 one] one strikes me as different. It seems that desperation within the scientific community has reached such a level that the gloves are off and they feel the time has come to be blunt.

120

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Concentrated power pursues the [class] war relentlessly, & very self-consciously. Govt. documents and publications of the business world reveal that they are mostly vulgar Marxists, with values reversed of course. They are also frightened—back to 17th century England in fact.

101

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

For a century, the Zionist colonization of Palestine has proceeded primarily on the pragmatic principle of the quiet establishment of facts on the ground, which the world was to ultimately come to accept. It has been a highly successful policy. (1/3)

110

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If you want to know about [Jeff Bezos'] attitude towards women, take a look at an Amazon warehouse. Working conditions are horrendous. If you want to see his attitudes towards working people, take a look at the people who do deliveries. (1/3)

141

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The term “globalization” is used by power centers to refer to the specific form of international economic integration that has been instituted within the “neoliberal” framework of past several decades. The impact of this investor-rights version of globalization is reasonably clear. (1/2)

111

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It’s entirely obvious why the powerful should have contempt for international law, and why the weak (particularly the former colonies) should generally favor it. The powerful do what they want anyway; treaties and systems of world order don’t offer them any protection.

122

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

In general, I think that anarchosyndicalist conceptions — worker’s control, voluntary associations, decentralization and federalism, dissolution of hierarchic and authoritarian structures, and so on — are quite appropriate for the next stage of industrial society. (1/3)

122

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

In a hierarchic, oppressive society robotics will mean mass destruction. But the question is, what are the institutions? Robotics itself is neutral. Robotics itself could be used to eliminate degrading labor. It could be used to oppress people.

130

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

One of the leading Israeli military historians, Martin von Creveld...had an article [in 2006]. I think it was in the IHT in which he said, approximately, “Obviously we don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons. But if they don’t develop them they are crazy.” (1/3)

100

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In a market system—we have only a partial market system—but markets have inherent what they call “inefficiencies,” really lethal inefficiencies...It’s an inherent part of markets that if you make a transaction, then you look out for yourself not other people. (1/2)

101

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

As state capitalism developed into the modern era, economic, political and ideological systems have increasingly been taken over by vast institutions of private tyranny that are about as close to the totalitarian ideal as any that humans have so far constructed.

111

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

#NotAChomskyQuote A passage from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (gutenberg.org/files/140/14...)

000

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One of the things that the United States did in this century, which isn’t discussed enough, is that they started dismantling the arms control regime, which had been steadily established with difficulty over 60 years.

111

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The Godfather does not tolerate “successful defiance,” even from a small storekeeper who fails to pay protection money. It is too dangerous. It must therefore be stamped out, and brutally, so that others understand that disobedience is not an option. ~NC

140

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We can...be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world — at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. (1/2)

122

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

You want to talk about interference with the election? Campaign funding by the wealthy and the corporate sector utterly overwhelms the effect of any imaginable foreign interference. That’s the real interference with elections. (1/2)

150

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Hans Von Sponeck—a distinguished figure internationally—wrote a detailed book about Iraq under the sanctions. He knew more about Iraq in the 1990s than anyone. (1/3)

111

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

#NotAChomskyQuote Was browsing the environmental section of the local library and ran into this book google.com/books/editio... (Google Books Preview, 62 pages)

020

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Going back to markets — if you take an economics course, they tell you markets offer choices. That’s partly true, but very narrowly. Markets restrict choices, sharply restrict choices. Mass transportation is an example. Mass transportation is not a choice offered on the market. (1/2)

120

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

[U.S.] Planning documents stress that the role of Latin America is to provide resources and a favorable business and investment climate. chomsky.info/year01/ (Noam Chomsky Excerpted from Year 501: The Conquest Continues, South End Press, 1993)

021

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

#NotAChomskyQuote There are smoke-filled rooms! 🚬 #WilliamSimon #Petrodollar Source -> Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare By Edward Fishman, 2025 www.google.com/books/editio...

000

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

[2020] The costs of renewable energy are declining very sharply. If you eliminate the massive subsidies that are given to fossil fuels, renewable energy is probably already more cost-effective...So the basic idea of the GND is, I think, completely defensible—in fact, essential.

100

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"perpetual peace in a benign global political order" vs. "passing nightmare" - NC appears to land in the middle. #ImmanuelKant vs. #BertrandRussell 🥹

120

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

"If you have your hand on the spigot you can control what other people do, whether we use it or not." ~NC Source: chomsky.info/20101026/ ("Noam Chomsky on American Foreign Policy and US Politics", 2010)

112

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

If most people are dissatisfied and others are useless, you want to get rid of the useless & frighten the dissatisfied. The drug war does this. The US incarceration rate has risen dramatically, largely because of victimless crimes, such as drug offenses, & the sentences are extremely punitive (1/2)

121

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

From Chapter 4 of the Chomsky's 1992 book Deterring Democracy (znetwork.org/wp-content/u...)

011

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That’s just fine. It’s just the poor who aren’t supposed to cooperate.

142

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

If you go back far enough, [socialism] meant basically control of production by producers, elimination of wage labor, democratization of all spheres of life; production, commerce, education, media, workers’ control in factories, community control of communities, and so on (1/2)

151

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

So, take K-12, which is now geared increasingly toward “teaching to tests” – the worst possible form of education...you can study for the exam, pass the exam, get an “A,” and a week later you forgot what the course was even about. (1/2)

101

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

States are not moral agents. They do not engage in the use of force for humanitarian ends, although that’s always claimed.

111

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

When US forces entered Korea in 1945, they dispersed the local popular government, consisting primarily of antifascists who resisted the Japanese, and inaugurated a brutal repression, using Japanese fascist police and Koreans who had collaborated with them during the Japanese occupation. (1/2)

142

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

There are good reasons why the CIA and drugs are so closely linked. Clandestine terror requires hidden funds, and the criminal elements to whom the intelligence agencies naturally turn expect a quid pro quo. Drugs are the obvious answer. (1/2)

112

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

As the class war intensifies, the basic logic of capitalism manifests itself with brutal clarity: We have to maximize profit and power even though we know we are racing to suicide by destroying the environment that sustains life, not sparing ourselves and our families.

132

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I mean in the long run, anarchists would like to see the state eliminated. But it exists, alongside of private power, and the state is, at least to a certain extent, under public influence and control — could be much more so.

140

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The meaning of life is what you make of it. Life does not have any meaning apart from that, for a human, a dog, a bacterium, or anything else. It is up to you what the meaning of your life is. So, it is partially under your control. (1/2)

332

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

A large part of English wealth which helped initiate the early Industrial Revolution was derived from straight piracy. Sir Francis Drake, who provided huge sums to England, was a pirate. He was robbing Spanish ships on the high seas.

152

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

People say they’re opposed to welfare. That’s a Reaganite contribution. If welfare means some rich black woman driving up in her limousine to get your hard-earned money at the welfare office, people say they’re against it. (1/2)

101

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

[Edward Bernays] took over, at the request of the United Fruit Company, public relations activities to try to lay the basis for the U.S.-backed invasion, which destroyed an experiment in Guatemalan democracy and opened up forty years of extreme terror and violence. (1/3)

164

Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The United States is one of the very few societies — I don’t even know of any others — where fear of crime and drugs is used as a method of social control. (1/3)

141