About Quotes by Noam Chomsky

I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

— Noam Chomsky

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it…

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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about…

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There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics.…

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If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally…

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Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

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Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the…

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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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I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates…

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The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come…

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When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week,…

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In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an…

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You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions.…

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There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't…

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Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to…

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As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if…

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I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

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People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those…

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If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to…

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I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different…

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If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if…

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Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good…

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No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little…

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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab…

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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be…

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