Noam Chomsky

Large corporate advertisers on TV will rarely sponsor programs that engage in serious criticisms of corporate activities, such as the problem of environmental degradation, the workings of the military-industrial complex, or corporate support of and benefits from 3rd World tyrannies.

Take a look at Marx’s work. Very deep, analytic critique of a variety of capitalism, capitalist markets, properties, imperialism and so on, but about the future society a couple of scattered sentences, and I think, my guess is for good reasons.

So the fear of drugs and the fear of crime is very much stimulated by state and business propaganda. The National Justice Commission repeatedly points out that crime in the United States, while sort of high, is not off the spectrum for industrialized societies.

If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I’m a professor at MIT, that’s nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.

You could imagine that a democratic society would have an organization that carries out intelligence gathering functions. But that’s a very minor part of what the CIA does.

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Artillery is the god of war.

Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions, all has a single, very simple solution. … Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

We should be adult and grown up and decriminalise cannabis

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

Social media has no real impact on the propaganda model. The propaganda model was a study of the major institutions that provide the fundamental sources of news and information on which the general public relies.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one. … Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

Demographics aren’t destiny. Our culture isn’t the work of one race or religion. To suggest otherwise is to contradict our ideals and to doubt their power.