The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Africa's a wreck and it's not because it was hit by an asteroid. It's a wreck largely because it was hit by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Left, in a general sense, is very much atomized. We live in highly atomized societies. People are pretty much alone; it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The racism in Europe takes the form of anti-immigrant extremism - which is bad enough here - I think it's hard to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Europe is being subjected to the kinds of programs that devastated Latin America for many years. Latin America has thrown them out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe...… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be… — 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
“It's amazing in Europe: Europe has become extraordinarily colonized culturally by the United States, to an extent that is almost unbelievable―Europeans aren't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 bans militarization. Potential adversaries of the US, and even its allies, are so far… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a 'third force,'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Actually, my first article, it wasn't about the anarchists; it was about the fall of Barcelona and the spread of fascism over… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, what were called the socialist countries in Eastern Europe were the most anti-socialist systems in the world. Workers had more… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You never really saw the racism in Europe in the past because it was so homogeneous. When everyone is blonde and blue-eyed,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that… — 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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