... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we understood, as we do not, the physical bases for intellectual structures, I have little doubt that we would find structures… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a principle of human affairs that goes back millennia, which is that you don't look in the mirror. You can… — 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
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