Quotes About Noam Chomsky

I mean, you can pretend up to a certain point that the world has infinite resources and that it's an infinite wastebasket-but at some point you're going to run into the reality, which is that that isn't true.

There is no demonstration against Zionism, because even the European Parliament regards such a demonstration as anti-Semitic.

Public opinion is dismissed. That fact, once again, sends a strong message to Americans. It is their task to cure the dysfunctional political system, in which popular opinion is a marginal factor. The disparity between public opinion and policy, in this case, has significant implications for the fate of the world.

I think, legally speaking, there's a very solid case for impeaching every American president since the Second World War. They've all been either outright war criminals or involved in serious war crimes.) The

Now, the popular perception certainly is that violence is greater today-but that's mostly propaganda: that's just a part of the whole effort to make people frightened, so that they'll abandon their rights.

The health care system in the United States, I'm sure you know, is a total international scandal. It's twice the per capita cost of comparable countries and one of the worst outcomes, with a huge number of people uninsured altogether. And it's going to get worse.

counterinsurgency"—a standard term for terrorism that we direct.

In this case, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger's orders were being carried out—"anything that flies on anything that moves," an open call for genocide that is rare in the historical record.

Parler des affaires du monde est une chose banale. Il faut travailler un peu, lire un peu, réfléchir - rien de très profond. L'idée que cela nécessite des qualifications spéciales n'est qu'une escroquerie de plus.

The people who are known are riding the crest of some wave. Now, you can ride the crest of the wave and try to use it to get power, which is the standard thing, or you can ride the crest of the wave because you're helping people that way, which is another thing. But the point is, it's the wave that matters

In accord with the reigning single standard, the major terrorist atrocities—or worse, aggression—are excluded from the canon of international terrorism.

Part of the doctrinal system in the United States is the pretense that we're all a happy family, there are no class divisions, and everybody is working together in harmony. But that's radically false.

US relations with the World Court and other international institutions have undergone a similar evolution, to which we return.

The information sometimes is reported, but the media isn't presenting it.67

You can't have the United States opposing the peace process, because the peace process is what the United States is doing, by definition. And if anybody is opposing the United States, then they're opposing the peace process.

Don't forget, part of the whole intellectual vocation is creating a niche for yourself, and if everybody can understand what you're talking about, you've sort of lost, because then what makes you special? What makes you special has got to be something that you had to work really had to understand, and you mastered it, and all those guys out there don't understand it, and then that becomes the basis for your privilege and your power.

Any dictator would admire the obedience and uniformity of the U.S media.

they do not hate us, but rather the policies of our government...

Spending would then average about $4.5 trillion per year between 2024 and 2050. Total clean energy investment spending for the full twenty-seven-year investment cycle would amount to about $120 trillion.

But the imperial mentality is so deeply embedded in Western culture that this travesty passes without criticism, even notice.

a system of governance that merely grants the general public the opportunity to ratify decisions taken by the elite groups that dominate the private society and the state, hardly merits the term "democracy.

Foucault: Oh, you know, I don't believe that the problem of personal experience is so very important

Keith Bolender, Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba (London: Pluto Press, 2010).

alleged commitment to democracy and human rights is mere rhetoric, directly contrary to actual policy.