1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

The US is a country [in which] eighty percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by god. About half think every word is literally true. So it's had to appeal to that - and to the nativist population, the people that are frightened, have always been... It's a very frightened country and that's increasing now with the recognition that the white population is going to be a minority pretty soon, "they've taken our country from us."

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself.

Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.

Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.