Most of the population in America is disenfranchised. It doesn't matter what they think. Just look at the passionate rhetoric about how… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In America, we will use force whenever we like against anyone we regard as a potential threat, and maybe we will delegate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All through Latin America, there's sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it's qualified by the observation that although… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We don't have polls from the business world, but it's pretty clear that the energy corporations in America would be quite happy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us]… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Latin America was the most obedient follower of the neoliberal regime that was instituted by the United States, its allies and the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The United States can be held to lead the international community only if that community is defined as the United States and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No one is concerned with Central America anymore. If a million people are facing starvation in northern Nicaragua and Honduras, it's none… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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