Noam Chomsky

“The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.”

“Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.”

“My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.”

“The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.”

“Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.”

“There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.”

“Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.”

“The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.”

“In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.”

“By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds f...”

“You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.”

“Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.”

“The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.”

“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.”

“Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.”

“The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'”

“The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as th...”

“Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.”

“It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.”

“The childcare tax credit makes some sense.”