1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make much progress unless there's a strong solidarity movement within the superpower that will restrain its actions. With more support within the United States, I think the Haitian efforts could have succeeded.

Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

I don't like the intellectual label.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

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 freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

If you want to scare people, you talk about evil.