Quotes by Noam Chomsky

The ‘anti-globalisation movement’ is the most significant proponent of globalisation – but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

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.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

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

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.