Quotes from Noam Chomsky

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.

While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

Governments are not representative.

A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Governments don't control people like they used to.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

Our health care is rationed by wealth.