Noam Chomsky

The United States has a long history of supporting dictatorships.

1992 — Interview with David Barsamian, What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The media is a tool of the ruling class.

1992 — Interview with David Barsamian, What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The world is run by a small group of powerful people.

1992 — Interview with David Barsamian, What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The United States is a rogue state.

1992 — Interview with David Barsamian, What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The United States is a violent country.

1992 — Interview with David Barsamian, What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The United States is a militaristic country.

1992 — Interview with David Barsamian, What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The United States is an imperialist power.

1992 — Interview with David Barsamian, What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The United States is a homophobic country.

1992 — Interview with David Barsamian, What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The United States is a hypocritical country.

1992 — Interview with David Barsamian, What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The United States is a country that is based on exploitation.

1992 — Interview with David Barsamian, What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The United States is a leading terrorist state.

1992 — Interview with David Barsamian, 'What Uncle Sam Really Wants'

Controversial Unverifiable

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

2003 — Interview in 'Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews'

Controversial Unverifiable

The whole educational system is a system of indoctrination of the young.

1992 — Interview on 'Manufacturing Consent'

Controversial Unverifiable

Terrorism is the weapon of the weak.

2005 — Interview with David Barsamian, 'Imperial Ambitions'

Controversial Unverifiable

There are two conceptions of democracy. One is that the public should be able to participate, and the other is that the public should be spectators.

1967 — Speech at University of California, Berkeley, 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals'

Controversial Unverifiable

The United States has devoted a great deal of effort to trying to ensure that democracy does not function in the Middle East.

2006 — Interview on Democracy Now!

Controversial Unverifiable

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

1992 — Interview on 'Manufacturing Consent'

Controversial Unverifiable

It's not that I don't believe in government, it's that I don't believe in legitimate authority.

1994 — Interview with Andrew Ross, 'Consent Without Consent'

Controversial Unverifiable

The United States is unusual among the nations of the world in having a citizenry that is primarily an immigrant population.

2006 — Speech at University of Arizona, 'On the United States and the World'

Controversial Unverifiable

The whole point of the corporate media system is to marginalize serious critical thought.

2007 — Interview with David Barsamian, 'What We Say Goes'

Controversial Unverifiable

Sayings by Noam Chomsky