Quotes from Noam Chomsky

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

Control is the source of strategic power.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

People tend to rally around power.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.

The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.