There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an… — 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
If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those… — 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
If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little… — 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 Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image