The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself. — 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
People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't think all thinking is a kind of rational structure. But I don't think it is correct to identify the rational-nonrational… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Physics and those parts of other fields that grow out of physics - chemistry, the structure of big molecules - in those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Insofar as the universities are free and independent, they will also be "subversive," in the sense that dominant structures of power and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide… — 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
In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We naturally assume that our mental structures are universal. But I suppose an outside biologist looking at us would see something very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And… — 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
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the… — 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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