All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence. Acquiescence
- It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of the moon being… American
- States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent… Accurate
- Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or… Acts
- The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the… Accord
- Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well,… Accurate
- Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain… Act
- Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for… All
- Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show. Big
- Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but… Advanced
- The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences.… All
- The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want… Allowed
- There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind Character
- By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every… Accurate
- Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules… Analyzed
- We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it.… Acquiring
- The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have… Able
- Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and… American
- It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says 'nucular' and 'misunderestimate'… Accent
- The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to… Act
- ...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