I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of… — 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
A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which… — 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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster.… — 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
