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
That's a large part of the source of the gun culture. You have to have a gun when you go into Starbucks,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I grew up in that, when I was a kid. My friends and I used to play cowboys and Indians. We were… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In southern culture, possession of a gun became kind of a sign of manhood, not just because of slaves but other white… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The culture and ideology fostered in this globalization process relate largely to “lifestyle” themes and goods and their acquisition; and they tend… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take a look at the current debates in Washington, and of course, everything in the media. Only one issue is discussed: the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't feel that there is anything deep in the political culture that prevents "educating the masses." I'm old enough to recall… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out 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
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