When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I agree with Bill Clinton that US forces should not be sent to Haiti, but not for his reasons. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I mean the reason the sit-down strikes struck such fear in the hearts of management was that they knew that a sit-down… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Going back to why people don't vote, I presume the main reason is because they understand without reading political science texts that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, when drugs are legalized, use sometimes goes down, it's been claimed. Part of the reason is that teenage kids use… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's a class war, and a war on young people too... that's why tuition is rising so rapidly. There's no real economic… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by… — 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
Establishing a client state in Iraq would significantly enhance that strategic power, a matter of great significance for the future. As Zbigniew… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher… — 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
A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Isaiah] Berlin's observation is accurate enough, and applies at home as well, and even more harshly for the reasons already mentioned: the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western… — 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
Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book by the former Brazilian ambassador Celso Amorim. In 2010, he initiated an effort along with Turkey to settle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We don't have polls from the business world, but it's pretty clear that the energy corporations in America would be quite happy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama eight years ago. You remember, of course, his… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Student debt is structured to be a burden for life. The indebted cannot declare bankruptcy, unlike Donald Trump. Current student debt is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has… — 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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![“Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a professor at the University of Chicago, a liberal professor, he said what that means is that people thought too many Americans had being killed. Another possibility is they…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3e2/noam-chomsky-42_chicago_why-did-the-people-think-vietnam-war-was_2961383.jpg)
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