Noam Chomsky

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Noam Chomsky

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Noam Chomsky

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

Noam Chomsky

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

Noam Chomsky

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Noam Chomsky

I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals who are respected and privileged to be those who subordinate themselves to power.

Noam Chomsky

I think that’s a terrific technique of propaganda. To impose concision is a way of virtually guaranteeing that the party line gets repeated over and over again, and that nothing else is heard.

Noam Chomsky

I think, very plausibly, that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively, independently, without external controls.

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 the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Noam Chomsky