See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

Noam Chomsky

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

Noam Chomsky

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Noam Chomsky

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Noam Chomsky

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Noam Chomsky

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Noam Chomsky

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.

Noam Chomsky

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Noam Chomsky

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

Noam Chomsky

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....

Noam Chomsky

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Noam Chomsky

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

Noam Chomsky