"The elections are run by the same industries……" — Noam Chomsky

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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky has 588 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel…
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans,…
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound…
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued -…

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More Elections Quotes

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The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the… — Lord Acton
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. — Franklin P. Adams
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I… — Roseanne Barr
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election.… — Gael Garcia Bernal
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. — Benazir Bhutto
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. — Benazir Bhutto
Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's… — Jello Biafra
Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections. — Jello Biafra
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the… — Michael Bloomberg
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996. — Todd Akin

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