The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look at say, England and Germany a century ago, which had the most advanced navies then, they were dealing with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken… — 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
Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the mid to late nineteenth century, the gun manufacturers recognized that they had a limited market. Remember that this is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, Clinton-era publications of the US Space Command describe control over space as a parallel to control over the oceans a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That intellectuals, including academics, would become a "new class" of technocrats, claiming the name of science while cooperating with the powerful, was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times. — 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
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
They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's one white powder which is by far the most lethal known, it's called sugar. . . . The Caribbean back in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three… — 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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