States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under… — 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
Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities… — 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
I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders… At the very bottom of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation?… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Major efforts have to be undertaken to bring the general public to understand the real reasons for their plight, and the possibilities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Latin America was the most obedient follower of the neoliberal regime that was instituted by the United States, its allies and the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based… — 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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