In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's hard to achieve that, especially in a free society, but it's been done, and that's the kind of thing that activists… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary… — 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