Noam Chomsky Quotes About Desire

• Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Opportunity, Productive Work

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.179, Pantheon

• The actual consequences of Plan Colombia are to devastate peasant communities, which have been driven to drug production. These peasants have no particular desire to grow coca, but their other means of livelihood have been wiped out.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Community, Drug

  Source: www.madre.org

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

  Noam Chomsky

  Europe, Desire, Way

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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