The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA]. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Power is concentrated. The general policy is exactly the way that Adam Smith described it: it's designed for the benefit of its… — 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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My suspicion is that those who seem oblivious to suffering, whether it is nearby or in remote corners, are for the most… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am not sure just what Marx had in mind when he wrote that "philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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… — 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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