Noam Chomsky

Well take, say a corporate executive By law, a corporate executive must work to increase the profitability of the corporation. Disregarding the effects that it has on others. That’s actually a legal principle and that’s psychopathic.

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.

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

That just fires up his worshipful base, providing more evidence that the hated liberal elites are trying to destroy the one guy in the political arena who is dedicated to defending the common folk – who he is shafting, with delight, at every opportunity.

An educational system should cultivate from kindergarten to graduate school, and in the best cases sometimes does, and that leads to people who are, at least by my standards, well educated.?

We don’t say that three-year-olds are lying if they say they saw a dragon outside, or an actor in a play. It’s also not clear that it’s tactically useful to tot up the random falsehoods that pepper [Trump’s] tweets and orations.

Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

I will fight for you with every breath in my body – and I will never, ever let you down.

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

The GI bill provided free education to huge numbers of people – white men overwhelmingly – who would probably never have gone to college, a great benefit to them personally and to the whole society.

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

The Affordable Care Act isn’t Barack’s legacy, it’s the country’s legacy.

April Thesis, S and R the most radical things Lenin ever wrote, almost anarchist. My view is that it was basically opportunism. I don’t think he believes a word of it. It seems to me that he was trying to associate himself, become the leader of the revolutionary popular forces.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.

This debate is now about injustice and inequality. Two years ago, it would have been about benefits scroungers. We’ve changed the language and changed the mood. Labour is in good heart.

In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.

People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.