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
The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bolivia is in the lead internationally in talking about the threat of environmental catastrophe. It's generally true where there are indigenous populations,… — 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
The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Internal security means something. It means war against your own population. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The manufacturing industry is starting to press for some kind of national healthcare. Now it's beginning to put it on the agenda.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights… — 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
It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a… — 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
If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think half the population supports this ban on these dangerous immigrants who are going to come in and do something, who… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same… — 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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