1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.

In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?'

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

It's a class war, and a war on young people too... that's why tuition is rising so rapidly. There's no real economic reason for that. It's a technique of control and indoctrination. And this is really the first organized, significant reaction to it, which is important.

Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.