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The choice is ours, the choice is yours.
— Noam Chomsky
The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.
— Noam Chomsky
The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.
— Noam Chomsky
I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.
— Noam Chomsky
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
— Noam Chomsky
The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.
— Noam Chomsky
States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power
— Noam Chomsky
The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced.
— Noam Chomsky
Bombing of urban areas was not considered a war crime at Nuremberg; reason is, the West did more of it than the Germans.
— Noam Chomsky
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
— Noam Chomsky
There is, in fact, a strong case to be made that a prime concern of government is the security of state power from the population. As
— Noam Chomsky
Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
— Noam Chomsky
The people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace.
— Noam Chomsky
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
— Noam Chomsky
Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
— Noam Chomsky
I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.
— Noam Chomsky
I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.
— Noam Chomsky
The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'
— Noam Chomsky
There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
— Noam Chomsky
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
— Noam Chomsky
I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.
— Noam Chomsky
Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.
— Noam Chomsky
On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.
— Noam Chomsky
Education is imposed ignorance.
— Noam Chomsky
The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
— Noam Chomsky
Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.
— Noam Chomsky
If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.
— Noam Chomsky
States are not moral agents.
— Noam Chomsky
Palestinians have no wealth or power.
— Noam Chomsky
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
— Noam Chomsky
It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.
— Noam Chomsky
Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
— Noam Chomsky
Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles.
— Noam Chomsky
The point of advertising is to destroy markets.
— Noam Chomsky
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
— Noam Chomsky
There's no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.
— Noam Chomsky
As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.
— Noam Chomsky
It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.
— Noam Chomsky
I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
— Noam Chomsky
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
— Noam Chomsky
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
— Noam Chomsky
The suppression of the State cannot be a languid affair; it must be the task of the Revolution to finish with the State.
— Noam Chomsky
Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.
— Noam Chomsky
Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.
— Noam Chomsky
It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.
— Noam Chomsky
A democracy is a system in which you are free to do whatever you like as long as you do what we tell you.
— Noam Chomsky
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.
— Noam Chomsky
The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise.
— Noam Chomsky
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
— Noam Chomsky
Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.
— Noam Chomsky
If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.
— Noam Chomsky
There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.
— Noam Chomsky
Government actually grew during the Reagan years.
— Noam Chomsky
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
— Noam Chomsky
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
— Noam Chomsky
War is a racket. The few profit, the many pay.
— Noam Chomsky
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'
— Noam Chomsky
Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.
— Noam Chomsky
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
— Noam Chomsky
I'm into eating as little as possible ... I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.
— Noam Chomsky
I do not feel that we should set up people as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.
— Noam Chomsky
People tend to rally around power.
— Noam Chomsky
If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
— Noam Chomsky
It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.
— Noam Chomsky
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
— Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader's attention from the plain truth.
— Sidney Hook
I didn't pay my taxes for years.
— Noam Chomsky