States Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.

— Noam Chomsky

NATO's essentially run by the United States.

— Noam Chomsky

States are not moral agents.

— Noam Chomsky

When Nazi emissaries came to the United States, they were welcomed at Harvard.

— Noam Chomsky

Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look.

— Noam Chomsky

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

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One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

— Noam Chomsky

The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.

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In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful.

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Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s.

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The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

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Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos…

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For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

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The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army…

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In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It…

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United States has comparative advantage in military force. It tends to react to anything at first with military force, that's what it's…

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Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or…

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There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.

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A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should…

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Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused…

— Noam Chomsky

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World…

— Noam Chomsky

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come…

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George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States…

— Noam Chomsky

The [Barack] Obama administration has pressured Mexico to keep them away from the Mexican border, so that they don't succeed in reaching…

— Noam Chomsky

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of…

— Noam Chomsky

Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention…

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The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with…

— Noam Chomsky

It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a…

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Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and…

— Noam Chomsky

For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff…

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Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents…

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If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early…

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The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United…

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There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with…

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Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's…

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In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.

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The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

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If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

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The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

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I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

— Noam Chomsky