“I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.”
Power
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
FreedomAll Quotes by Noam Chomsky
“The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!”
Communication“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.”
Freedom“Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.”
Nature“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.”
Fear“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”
History“The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.”
Power“In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.”
Government“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.”
Power“As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.”
Science“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.”
Government“If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.”
Amazing“The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.”
History“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
Freedom“We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.”
War“Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.”
Art“The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.”
History“Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.”
Fear“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.”
Power“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.”
War