Noam Chomsky Privilege Quotations

In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.