World Quotes by Noam Chomsky

In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.

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I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is…

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There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

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You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

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It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.

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For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

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We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world…

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The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue.

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[According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products…

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It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself…

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If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who…

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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on…

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The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of…

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Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's…

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On the other hand, you have to balance that against expanding our nuclear forces, add to our so-called depleted military, which is…

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France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even…

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To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,'…

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The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive,…

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America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,…

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What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago,…

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The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural…

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Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the…

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You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened…

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...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other…

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Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of…

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Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning…

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In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development.…

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Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent,…

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North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear…

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My suspicion is that those who seem oblivious to suffering, whether it is nearby or in remote corners, are for the most…

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Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.

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The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

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Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

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The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years.

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The United States is absolutely the most dangerous country in the world.

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The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.

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Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look.

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The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

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