
“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell.”
Section 2
La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)
The Carpet People (1971; 1992)
Context: They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings.
It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on.
“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell.”
Section 2
La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)
“The people who call themselves conservatives”
Interview by Ira Shorr, February 11, 1996 http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/19960211.htm.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999
Context: There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves conservatives, like the Heritage Foundation or Gingrich, are believers in -- are radical statists. They believe in a powerful state, but a welfare state for the rich.
"The Origins of the Beat Generation" in Playboy (June 1959)
“True people conquer you by being themselves.”
Original: Le persone vere ti conquistano essendo se stesse.
Source: prevale.net
“A lot of the people who call themselves Left I would regard as proto-fascists.”
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s, Talk at University of California, Berkeley, 1984