Noam Chomsky

It’s very important for institutions of concentrated power to keep people alone and isolated: that way they’re ineffective, they can’t defend themselves against indoctrination, they can’t even figure out what they think.

So we’re destroying the environment for organized human life. We’re threatening a terminal disaster with regular nuclear confrontations. Anybody who has looked at the record, which is shocking, would have to conclude that it’s a miracle that we’ve survived this long.

Europe has not been a heterogenous society to anything like the extent that the United States has. Nor has it been as mobile a society as the United States. These matters have been a bit under the cover, but they’re harder to keep under the cover.

…the Pentagon has been the primary Keynesian mechanism whereby the government intervenes to maintain what is ludicrously called the health of the economy by inducing production, that means production of waste and destruction

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

The first [task of the Pentagon] is to preserve an international system in which what are called American interests – which primarily means business interests, can flourish.

[After Communism succeeds] …then, there will come a peace across the earth.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

There can be no bosses in our country except the people. The job of the government is to serve, not to dominate.

Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

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.

One of your tasks is to separate the “personal” from the “substantive.” The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

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

We are no longer a leader. Putin has become the leader, and it’s an embarassment to our country.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.- Joseph Stalin

A fundamental goal of U.S. policy towards Latin America (and elsewhere), long-standing and well-documented, is to take control of the police and military so as to assure that the population will not act upon unacceptable ideas.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

[People] think they have done enough for the protection of individual freedom when they have surrendered it to the power of the nation at large. This does not satisfy me: the nature of him I am to obey signifies less to me than the fact of extorted obedience.

If one looks at the map of the world, it’s difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.