Noam Chomsky

People tend to rally around power.

Poor and suffering people do not have the luxury of indulging in fairy tales. Not uncommonly, their own experience gives them a grasp of realities that are well concealed by the intellectual culture.

The documents of Japanese fascists are just overflowing with loving kindness…when they were carrying out huge massacres in China they were bringing an “earthly paradise” to China and protecting the people from the ‘bandits’ who were trying to undermine it and so on and so forth.

The congressional Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the [“The US Donor Relief Act of 2017”] will add $1 trillion to deficits over the next decade. Virtually every economist generally agrees. But not 80 percent of Republican voters…

While capital is now highly mobile, labor is increasingly immobile – and that has immediate consequences. It means that it is easy to shift production to low-wage, high-repression areas of the world with low environmental standards.

I would question the use of something as simplistic as IQ to come to any conclusions regarding human affairs.

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton, voted against their own voice.

The more powerful you are, the more you dominate others, the more you create justifications for that in ideology and education and media and so on. If you’ve got your boot on someone else’s neck, it’s typical to provide a justification for it.

Nuclear weapons are not a defence.

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state – a new idea, this – even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

We – we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

Primarily the United States has overstepped its national borders, and in every area.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

To forgive the terrorists is up to God, but to send them to him is up to me.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.