As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," where he pointed out that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can see it in the worship of [Ronald] Reagan, which portrays him as somebody who saved us from government. Actually he… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In his book Politics, which is the foundation of the study of political systems, and very interesting, Aristotle talked mainly about Athens.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the United States, the day when you pay your taxes is a day of mourning because this alien force - the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have a record for Nawaz Sharif but not the others. And judging by the record, it's pretty hard to be optimistic.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Around 2008 and again in 2013 NATO officially offered the Ukraine the opportunity to join NATO. That's something no Russian government is… — 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
The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same… — 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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