Government Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

— Noam Chomsky

States are not moral agents.

— Noam Chomsky

Governments are not representative.

— Noam Chomsky

Governments don't control people like they used to.

— Noam Chomsky

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

— Noam Chomsky

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

— Noam Chomsky

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

— Noam Chomsky

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

— Noam Chomsky

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

— Noam Chomsky

Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

— Noam Chomsky

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

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But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their…

— Noam Chomsky

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often…

— Noam Chomsky

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them,…

— Noam Chomsky

...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention…

— Noam Chomsky

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

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Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act…

— Noam Chomsky

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second…

— Noam Chomsky

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other…

— Noam Chomsky

Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats…

— Noam Chomsky

In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for…

— Noam Chomsky

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will…

— Noam Chomsky

In the United States, the day when you pay your taxes is a day of mourning because this alien force - the…

— Noam Chomsky

The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive,…

— Noam Chomsky

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and…

— Noam Chomsky

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a…

— Noam Chomsky

[The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is…

— Noam Chomsky

The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all…

— Noam Chomsky

Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of…

— Noam Chomsky

...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

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

I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing…

— Noam Chomsky

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

When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called…

— Noam Chomsky

Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is…

— Noam Chomsky

“المثقف من حمل الحقيقة في وجه القوة ('cultured from carrying the truth in the face of power')”

— Noam Chomsky

I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

— Noam Chomsky

Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't…

— Noam Chomsky

A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep…

— Noam Chomsky