The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Stability means you do what we say, and what we say is that Colombia and the resources of the Andean region shall… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international… — 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
Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take Germany and Japan, both defeated in the Second World War. Germany has acknowledged its monstrous crimes to a certain extent, has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Millions of people are getting the vote, and we have to educate them to keep them from our throats. In other words,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was an international conference going on in Morocco that was a follow up for the Paris conference - to put some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering… — 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
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
It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The term "globalization," like most terms of public discourse, has two meanings: its literal meaning, and a technical sense used for doctrinal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the Christian fundamentalists' goals seems to be to rebuild the Temple, which means destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which presumably means… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 bans militarization. Potential adversaries of the US, and even its allies, are so far… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I listen to talk radio a lot and it's kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What can you do to mitigate the likelihood that Iran will develop nuclear weapons? There's a very simple method: move towards establishing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts 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
