Noam Chomsky

“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.”

“The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is mu...”

“By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.”

“In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.”

“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.”

“My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agenc...”

“September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have b...”

“States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.”

“States are not moral agents.”

“In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba,...”

“Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.”

“The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.”

“The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.”

“To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are im...”

“The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.”

“In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize tha...”

“Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fri...”

“The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same i...”

“Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.”

“When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidenc...”