Noam Chomsky Quotes

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

Democratic societies can’t force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think.

If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That’s human nature.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.