Noam Chomsky Population Quotations

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.

In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce. The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don’t want them.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship

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

The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.