Political Quotes by Noam Chomsky

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

— Noam Chomsky

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned.

— Noam Chomsky

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

— Noam Chomsky

My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.

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Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.

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Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.

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Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political…

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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on…

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

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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.

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This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.

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If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each…

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It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

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There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

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Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the…

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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It…

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To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,'…

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You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements…

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Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when…

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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding…

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Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under…

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There have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents,…

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...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other…

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Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not…

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Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right…

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“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be…

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I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to…

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Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very…

— Noam Chomsky

We don't have polls from the business world, but it's pretty clear that the energy corporations in America would be quite happy…

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Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations,…

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Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena…

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The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects…

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The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize…

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In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of…

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I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me…

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Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the…

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The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I…

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Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's…

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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the…

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