When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One contribution scientists can and should make is to be clear and explicit about the limits of scientific understanding, a matter that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most dramatic case is that of the Central Americans. Why are people fleeing Central America? It's because of the atrocities the… — 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
Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there… — 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
They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Travel from what is called Pakistan to Afghanistan has been made increasingly difficult and people are often labelled terrorists, even those who… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't use the social media but I can see the effects in my own correspondence. I get a ton of correspondence.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Pakistan is not a unified country. In large parts of the country, the state is regarded as a Punjabi state, not their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some [people] may be "servants of the power structure," but that has to be shown. I think it often can be shown,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nothing is more inspiring to see how poor and suffering people, living under conditions incomparably worse than we endure, continue quietly and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Mikhail] Gorbachev complained. He was told look, there's nothing on paper. People didn't actually say it but the implication was look, if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. — 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
The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much.… — 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
If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't feel that there is anything deep in the political culture that prevents "educating the masses." I'm old enough to recall… — 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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