Because Quotes by Noam Chomsky

12 Because quotes by Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky’s 12 brief reflections on ‘because’ cut straight to the analytical core of why things unfold as they do. Expect clear, concise reasoning that reflects his scholarly style.

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Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's…

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There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United…

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The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

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There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow…

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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 workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they…

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In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with…

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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest…

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If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because…

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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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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…

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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…

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I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two…

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American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a…

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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…

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This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

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There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…

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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. You can't…

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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…

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