“When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave own...” — Noam Chomsky Quote

“When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.”

“Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.”

“NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?”

“If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.”

“Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.”

“He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.”

“To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.”

“First of all, a giant corporation probably shouldn't be being hacked by teenagers. I put that on the corporation, not the teenagers. Teenagers are going to do what teenagers are going to do - rebelling. But if they're able to hack a big corporation, that seems like the corporation should be better at security.”

“Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.”

“I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.”

“The government of Dubai, as much as it is a government, it is a corporation.”