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

  • 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.

  • I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

  • 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.

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