Noam Chomsky Quotes

While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.

Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

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.