Facts Quotes by Noam Chomsky

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second…

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The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very…

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Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution,…

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Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.

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On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

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In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief…

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In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.

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I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

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Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would…

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France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even…

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In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical…

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To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,'…

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So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of…

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Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon.…

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There are huge areas where the human mind is apparently incapable of forming sciences, or at least has not done so. There…

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Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have…

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The real invasion of South Vietnam which was directed largely against the rural society began directly in 1962 after many years of…

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You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened…

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I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary…

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I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done…

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In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development.…

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There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher…

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Looking at polls of Arab public opinion, you look at popular figures, the most popular figure is the prime minister of Turkey,…

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I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to…

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There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

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Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more…

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Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

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The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I…

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If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally…

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Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or…

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I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

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In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor…

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In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the…

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The neoliberal programs of the last generation have in fact been, and were intended to be, a pretty serious attack on democracy,…

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Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions…

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Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically…

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Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the…

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South America has virtually broken away in the last decade. That's an event of historic significance. South America just doesn't follow US…

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The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world.…

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What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual…

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