Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“no form of politics is worth our time until it helps struggling people get what they need, sustainably and reliably. All the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't feel that there is anything deep in the political culture that prevents "educating the masses." I'm old enough to recall… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
US government policies are continuing to do exactly the same thing [produce terrorism]. Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time working on declassified documents - and they do get declassified after decades - you look at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Aristotle’s Politics, Book III, Chapter 8 The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is between poverty and wealth. Wherever the rulers, whether… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the succeeding thirty-two years of U.S. guidance, not only has Guatemala gradually become a terrorist state rarely matched in the scale… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“See, one of the serious illusions we live under in the United States, which is a major part of the whole system… — 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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