Top 452 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.

I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs.