The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If you abandon the political arena, somebody is going to be there. Corporations aren't going to go home and join the PTA.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The main selling appeal of NAFTA to US corporations is that it gives them an advantage in the North American market over… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Stability means you do what we say, and what we say is that Colombia and the resources of the Andean region shall… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“At the deepest level, the media contribute to the sense that the government is the enemy, and they suppress the sources of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We don't have polls from the business world, but it's pretty clear that the energy corporations in America would be quite happy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I mean, to talk about "corporate greed" is like talking about "military weapons" or something like that―there just is no other possibility.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Somebodys paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. Theyre getting paid by the American taxpayer in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The main mineral in your cellphone, coltan [a black metallic ore], comes from the Eastern Congo. Multinational corporations are there exploiting the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders… At the very bottom of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation?… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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