If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — 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… — 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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You have to love that government, but hate the government that might work in your interest and that you could control. That's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well, they really didn't have to worry, because the way power politics works, the World Court can't do anything. Look, there's one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In fact, I think all of this screaming about "Political Correctness" that we hear these days in the elite culture is basically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from… — 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
The contradiction is somehow unresolved. In the case of the business propaganda, it's particularly ironic because while business wants the population to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
England shouldn't have the real freedom of vote and we shouldn't either. Because as [James Madison] put it, one of the primary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The dynamics of the Taliban now appear to be very different and complex, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they attack governments… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Power has to be protected from scrutiny. That's the principle of every dictatorship, of every autocracy. You hear it from high priests… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep… — 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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