If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Right to a speedy jury trial and so on and so forth. But what do they mean by 'person'? It certainly didn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's been a real success - one of the great business successes in the United States - to break down organization, to… — 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
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are simple things which would make sense. Take, say, weatherization, which would make a big cut in the unemployment rate. That's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The current period of regression is registering some success in "producing people" who are subordinated to external power, diverted to such "superficial… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group… — 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
![“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if meaningful.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6e7/noam-chomsky-42_coercion_a-s-long-as-individuals-are-compelled-to_2063768.jpg)
