1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it’s low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift – a striking shift – from production to financialization.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination,’ we might say – exercised through the mass media.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s – the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

People not only don’t know what’s happening to them, they don’t even know that they don’t know.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

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

The core of the anarchist tradition, as I understand it, is that power is always illegitimate, unless it proves itself to be legitimate. So the burden of proof is always on those who claim that some authoritarian hierarchic relation is legitimate. If they can’t prove it, then it should be dismantled.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for – presidential medal of honor.