Quotes By Noam Chomsky

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

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.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

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

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

I don't want followers.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.