In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain… — 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
In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most of us who were opposed to the war, especially in the early '60's - the war we were opposed to was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Take Canada again: why does Canada have the health-care program it does? Up until the mid-1960s, Canada and the United States had… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the… — 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
In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to… — 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
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Among the many symbols used to frighten and manipulate the populace of the democratic states, few have been more important than "terror"… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Allowing an independent and sovereign Iraq could be a nightmare for the United States. It would mean that it would be Shi'ite-dominated,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Or I remember in 1987, when there was a big hoopla about the bicentennial of the Constitution, the Boston Globe published one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of… — 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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