There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam… — 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
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of… — 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
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: that’s where… — 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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