1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.

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 child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.

For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.