Noam Chomsky

"Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party." Noam Chomsky

"Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech." Noam Chomsky

"Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them." Noam Chomsky

"You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions." Noam Chomsky

"When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports." Noam Chomsky

"How it is we have so much information, but know so little?" Noam Chomsky

"If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal." Noam Chomsky

"For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit." 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!" Noam Chomsky

"Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow." Noam Chomsky

"In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States." Noam Chomsky

"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists." Noam Chomsky

"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it." Noam Chomsky

"Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute." Noam Chomsky