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
I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Younger people who are being indoctrinated into the contemporary system of falsification - they really have to do some research to find… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For example, the insurance industries and the big banks are absolutely euphoric now - on the business pages they don't even conceal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a radical insurgency, which is a large part of the Republican base, which is willing to do anything, destroy the country,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some of the younger people afford hope for the future. I am not opposed to reform initiatives. For example, if you can… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Women taking care of children . . . it makes sense to pay them for that work . . . they should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh has answered - it's the rich liberals who own the banks and run the government, and of course run the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared… — 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
I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's called Obamacare is an effort to mildly change this [health-care system], not change it as far as it should go or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Right at the beginning of all of this [Ukraine to join NATO], serious senior statesmen, people like [George] Kennan for example and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of… — 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