Noam Chomsky

"In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back." Noam Chomsky

"A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer." Noam Chomsky

"The best defense against democracy is to distract people." Noam Chomsky

"The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind." Noam Chomsky

"Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves." Noam Chomsky

"A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language." Noam Chomsky

"I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression." Noam Chomsky

"The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents." Noam Chomsky

"Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil." Noam Chomsky

"The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant." Noam Chomsky

"The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival." Noam Chomsky

"One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses." Noam Chomsky

"I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings." Noam Chomsky

"If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are." Noam Chomsky