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
I just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The media are a corporate monopoly. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Neoliberalism is the defining political economic paradigm of our time—it refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private… — 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
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing… — 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
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
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
You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of… — 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
[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of Office. I don’t know how many of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want… — 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
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
As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination… — 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
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
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
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
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
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they… — 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
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Donald Trump and Sean Spicer do one thing after another to keep the media attention focused on them. And it works. These… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Turkey also, for a long time, the military was the decisive force but in the past 10 years they have backed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The shutdown itself is bad but not devastating. The real danger will come up in a couple of weeks. There's legislation which… — 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
“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
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
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
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
Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and… — 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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