Noam Chomsky

A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.

Noam Chomsky

A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century – and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.

Noam Chomsky

A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.

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

A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think they are right, that they are not being forced to write anything.

Noam Chomsky

About half the population thinks that every person in Congress, including their own representative, should be thrown out. That’s the center not holding.

Noam Chomsky

Academics are not necessarily nice people.

Noam Chomsky

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

Noam Chomsky

Africa’s a wreck and it’s not because it was hit by an asteroid. It’s a wreck largely because it was hit by Europe.

Noam Chomsky

All media depend on advertisement to survive.

Noam Chomsky