Noam Chomsky

In fact, only two groups are allowed to be class-conscious in the United States. One of them is the business community, which is rabidly class-conscious…The other group is the high planning sectors of the government.

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

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category-except for the category of familiarity.

There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic – solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups – sectors of these movements do very valuable work.

I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it’s inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don’t want to name any specific examples… but often, environmentalism is used to blackmail companies.

In fact, in my view, if the managers of the propaganda system were more intelligent, they would allow more leeway to real dissidents and critics. Because it still wouldn’t make much of a difference, given the overwhelming weight of propaganda on the other side…

If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!

The blacks want always Democrats … You know it’s like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and put them on welfare … Does anybody know about that? That’s a Democratic plan.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

America will start winning again, winning like never before.

[on Trump] It is not our business to asses his worthiness, but he is the absolute leader of the presidential race.

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on – because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.

There is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn’t any pain I haven’t known.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

One reason why Canada has national healthcare and the United States doesn’t, is that in Canada the labor movements militantly advocated for national healthcare. In the United States the same unions militantly advocated for good healthcare for themselves.

You have a bunch of bad hombres down there. You aren’t doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn’t, so I might just send them down to take care of it.