I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we understood, as we do not, the physical bases for intellectual structures, I have little doubt that we would find structures… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the use of language is a very important means by which this species, because of its biological nature, creates a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The goal is a society in which the basic social unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, some leaders come right out and say it. Mario Draghi the president of the European Central Bank had an interview… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is undoubtedly much to learn about the social uses of language, for communication or for other purposes. But at present there… — 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
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
About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for… — 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
Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the… — 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
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and… — 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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