In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've often been struck by the extensive knowledge that people have of sports, and particularly, their self-confidence in discussing it with experts.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let's imagine again an observer looking at us without any preconceptions. I think he would be struck by the fact that although… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a principle of human affairs that goes back millennia, which is that you don't look in the mirror. You can… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that we have basically nothing in the field of human behavior. Maybe that is just a condition of temporary ignorance.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If humans are organisms like every other organism - which they are - then we should expect that if there are some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically… — 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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