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
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
In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices.… — 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
“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
“Governments are bigger than ever, but under neoliberalism they have far less pretense to being concerned with addressing non-corporate interests. And” — 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
[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate… — 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
Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Well, I'm not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put… — 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
“Well, in our society, we have things that you might use your intelligence on, like politics, but people really can't get involved… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Propaganda campaigns in general have been closely attuned to elite interests. The Red scare of 1919-20 have served well to abort the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If you abandon the political arena, somebody is going to be there. Corporations aren't going to go home and join the PTA.… — 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
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
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
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
The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive,… — 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
In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act… — 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
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
It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming… — 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
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 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
In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries.… — 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
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
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
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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