Noam Chomsky
Linguistics, political activism
Sayings by Noam Chomsky
The United States has a long history of supporting dictatorships.
The media is a tool of the ruling class.
The world is run by a small group of powerful people.
The United States is a rogue state.
The United States is a violent country.
The United States is a militaristic country.
The United States is an imperialist power.
The United States is a homophobic country.
The United States is a hypocritical country.
The United States is a country that is based on exploitation.
The United States is a leading terrorist state.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
The whole educational system is a system of indoctrination of the young.
Terrorism is the weapon of the weak.
There are two conceptions of democracy. One is that the public should be able to participate, and the other is that the public should be spectators.
The United States has devoted a great deal of effort to trying to ensure that democracy does not function in the Middle East.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
It's not that I don't believe in government, it's that I don't believe in legitimate authority.
The United States is unusual among the nations of the world in having a citizenry that is primarily an immigrant population.
The whole point of the corporate media system is to marginalize serious critical thought.