The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Okay, NATO expanded to East Berlin and East Germany. Under [Bill] Clinton NATO expanded further, to the former Russian satellites. In 2008… — 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
I think the foreign policy is really not Donald Trump administration concern. Like the Syria strike. I mean, it meant almost nothing.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The focus on creativity and independence exists in pockets of resistance in the educational system, which, to thrive, should be integrated with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to find weapons of destruction, you can find them all over the place. Take, say, Israel. There is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Those who wish to change the world should have the best possible understanding of the world, including what is revealed by the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's necessary to address the concerns and beliefs of those who are taken in by the fraud, or who don't recognize the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't claim to know a lot about Mexico, but I did talk to quite a number of left Mexican intelectuals, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the Christian Coalition could be extremely dangerous. We should always be concerned when any group wants to impose their doctrinal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some of [Donald Trump] comments can be interpreted as potentially reducing the threat of nuclear war. The major threat right now is… — 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
As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been… — 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
To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've often been struck by the extensive knowledge that people have of sports, and particularly, their self-confidence in discussing it with experts.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Dissidents are not imprisoned as in the domains of the Kremlin, in the old days. They do not have their brains blown… — 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
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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