Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The literature is like that - they [unions] are constantly talking about the masses, the danger they pose, and how to control… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't claim to know a lot about Mexico, but I did talk to quite a number of left Mexican intelectuals, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics.… — 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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