Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
President Barack Obama, to his credit, has given - issued personal pardons in deserving cases. But he should go far beyond. He… — 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
In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others;… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we… — 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
Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
While I think in principle people should not have irrational beliefs, I should say that as a matter of fact, it is… — 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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