Noam Chomsky Quotes
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.
The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.
This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars — they would think the country has gone insane.
As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.
No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.
My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.
Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.
Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.
The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.
The 'corporatization of America' during the past century has been an attack on democracy.
There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security.
Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .
Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.
Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.
Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.
The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed.
Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'
Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.
Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it.
My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.
Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.
Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.
The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.
I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.
There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.
The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.
Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.
Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
