All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- 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
- Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the… Any
- It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover. Cover
- It is not a war. It is murder. Inspirational
- Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Assassinated
- With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it in favor… Basically Two
- The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary… Achieve
- When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier… Any
- It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest… Advanced
- Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.' Apache
- In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The… All