On Aadhaar, as quoted in " Raghuram Rajan's first speech as RBI governor http://www.firstpost.com/business/read-full-text-raghuram-rajans-first-speech-as-rbi-governor-1084971.html", Firstpost (5 September 2013)
“The PLAYSTATION3 will retail for Five-Hundred-Ninety-Nine US Dollars.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 37
“Philanthropy means to steal wholesale, and give away retail.”
The Religion of Capital (1887), New York Labor News (1918), p. 22
§ 4
"Looking Back on the Spanish War" (1943)
Context: Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’.
“Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side.”
Haven (1951)
“Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.”
“State terror is almost always much more extreme than retail terror, and this is no exception.”
Interview by Tony Jones on Lateline, April 8, 2002 http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20020408.htm.
Quotes 2000s, 2002
Context: [Q: do you think the Palestinian suicide bombers are freedom fighters or terrorists? ] They're terrorists - they're both, actually. They're trying to fight for freedom, but doing it in a totally unacceptable immoral way. Of course they're terrorists. And there's been Palestinian terrorism all the way through. I have always opposed it, I oppose it now. But it's very small as compared with the US-backed Israeli terrorism. Quite typically, violence reflects the means of violence. It's not unusual. State terror is almost always much more extreme than retail terror, and this is no exception.
“To whom had he retailed his conscience, Sandra wondered, and what was the going price these days?”
Source: Vortex (2011), Chapter 9 (p. 118)
