If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Elections are run by the public relations industry. Its primary task is commercial advertising, which is designed to undermine markets by creating… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about… — 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 Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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