“If we have the choice between trusting in centralized power to make the right decision, or trusting in free associations of libertarian communities to make that decision, I would rather trust the latter. And the reason is that I think that they can serve to maximize decent human instincts, whereas a…”— Noam Chomsky, chomsky.infoTagged: Libertarianism, Localism, Against Universal Power, Centralization vs. Distriubtion, Political Architectures
“I’ve never seen a child who didn’t want to build something out of blocks, or learn something new, or try the next task. And the only reason why adults aren’t like that is, I suppose, that they have been sent to school and other oppressive institutions, which have driven that out of them.”— Noam Chomsky, chomsky.infoTagged: Schools as Prisons, Institutional Weakening of the Will
“The idea of justice in itself is an idea which in effect has been invented and put to work in different types of societies as an instrument of a certain political and economic power or as a weapon against that power.”— Michel Foucault, chomsky.infoTagged: Justice, Justice is Violence, Justice As A Power Apparatus
“I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use of violence is in some sense unjust. I believe that one has to estimate relative justices.”— Noam Chomsky, chomsky.infoTagged: When Is Violence Appropriate?, Fighting Back, The Nuances of Non-Violence