Noam Chomsky

“My family was mostly unemployed working class.”

“Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.”

“The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.”

“Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.”

“Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.”

“I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.”

“If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.”

“Pakistan is not a unified country.”

“Palestinians have no wealth or power.”

“I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there.”

“How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.”

“If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to war.”

“I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.”

“It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.”

“There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.”

“Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.”

“The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.”

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”

“Government actually grew during the Reagan years.”

“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.”