1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

They declare that it is unpatriotic and disruptive to question the workings of authority--but patriotic to institute harsh and regressive policies that benefit the wealthy, undermine social programs that serve the needs of the great majority, and subordinate a frightened population to increased state control.

On almost all issues, citizens could not identify the stands of the candidates--as intended.

Any dictator would admire the obedience and uniformity of the U.S media.

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.

[W]e have a democracy that uses free elections to put in place known obstructionists, and a media that disproportionately gives a forum to economically driven ideology over sound science.

The debt is being cynically exploited by the far right, with collusion of the Democrat establishment, to undermine what remains of social programs, public education, unions, and, in general, remaining barriers to corporate tyranny.

Now is not the time to look at the past. Lets look forward to the future.Diplomats know very well that these are standard slogans for those who are engaged in serious crimes.

[...] a time when anarchists were truly fearsome —less because they were willing to put a brick through a Starbucks window than because they had figured out how to organize themselves in a functional, egalitarian, and sufficiently productive society.

The ritual denunciation of the so-called ‘socialist’ states is replete with distortions and often outright lies.