Politics Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

— Noam Chomsky

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

— Noam Chomsky

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

— Noam Chomsky

Governments are not representative.

— Noam Chomsky

Governments don't control people like they used to.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.

— Noam Chomsky

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

— 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

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

— Noam Chomsky

“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

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

— 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

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

Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory…

— Noam Chomsky

“Governments are bigger than ever, but under neoliberalism they have far less pretense to being concerned with addressing non-corporate interests. And”

— 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

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

— Noam Chomsky

Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up,…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Noam Chomsky

“[Ron Paul's politics] is just savagery, and it goes across the board; in fact, this holds for the whole libertarian ideology. I…

— Noam Chomsky

“At the deepest level, the media contribute to the sense that the government is the enemy, and they suppress the sources of…

— Noam Chomsky

“Aristotle’s Politics, Book III, Chapter 8 The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is between poverty and wealth. Wherever the rulers, whether…

— Noam Chomsky

“In the succeeding thirty-two years of U.S. guidance, not only has Guatemala gradually become a terrorist state rarely matched in the scale…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky

“How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply…

— Noam Chomsky

“So take something that's been happening in recent years: devolution―that is, removing authority from the federal government down to the state governments.…

— Noam Chomsky

“Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to prevent Syrian…

— Noam Chomsky

“But there's one word. You look at any other term of political discourse, and you're going to find the same thing: the…

— Noam Chomsky

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

— Noam Chomsky

Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".

— Noam Chomsky

Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?

— Noam Chomsky