All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- ...jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies… Appealing
- The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to… Barbarians
- September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the US government does in the world… Agenda
- The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime. Crime
- Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and hatred of… Agree
- The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great… Alex
- Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic… Affair
- One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average… Actual
- Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world’s… Accord
- If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and… Afghanistan
- Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco]… Bases
- I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they… American
- The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including… Education
- In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state. Inspirational
- As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these… Any
- The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy. America
- There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a… Committed
- There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown… Accept
- As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is… Adherents
- Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people… Ahab