Noam Chomsky Quotes

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.

Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

Disasters don’t always discredit ruling elites.

Rumors of the American demise... have been greatly exaggerated.

The rest of the world sees America as weak.

You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

America is a mess. We don't even know what to look for anymore, folks. Our country has to straighten out. And we have to straighten out fast.

Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited.

When Americans—or citizens of any country—are faced with significant economic forces beyond their control, they struggle for answers, and often act out of frustration. The result is more turbulent politics, more strident cultural nationalism, and violence, as people seek ways to improve their economic situation … when the pie is shrinking.

The America I love is slipping away.

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

Iraq does have many, many different tensions.

I've worn down America.

The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away.

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way.

A neoliberal disaster is one who generates a mass incarceration regime, who deregulates banks and markets, who promotes chaos of regime change in Libya, supports military coups in Honduras, undermines some of the magnificent efforts in Haiti of working people, and so forth.