1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy.

The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every form of authority and domination bears a severe burden of proof. It is not self-legitimizing. And when it cannot bear the burden, as is commonly the case, it should be dismantled.

Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.