Quotes By Noam Chomsky

Governments don't control people like they used to.

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

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

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

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.

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.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

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

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

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.