--- title: "10 Degrees Quotes By Noam Chomsky" description: "10 Degrees quotes by Noam Chomsky. Plus more from Noam Chomsky and more Degrees sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db9/noam-chomsky-42_america_latin-america-for-the-first-time-in-500_565722.jpg" --- > [Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/latin-america-for-the-first-time-in-500-years-is-moving-towards-a/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db9/noam-chomsky-42_america_latin-america-for-the-first-time-in-500_565722.jpg) > [There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-are-two-parties-so-called-but-they-re-really-factions-of-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/536/noam-chomsky-42_degrees_there-are-two-parties-so-called-but-they_2401064.jpg) > [America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/america-is-a-very-fundamentalist-society-it-s-like-iran-in-the-degree/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a67/noam-chomsky-42_america_america-is-a-very-fundamentalist-society_265179.jpg) > [They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/they-students-have-a-degree-of-freedom-that-nobody-else-has/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7b/noam-chomsky-42_degree_they-students-have-a-degree-of-freedom-t_273130.jpg) > [To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/to-some-degree-it-matters-who-s-in-office-but-it-matters-more-how/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c45/noam-chomsky-42_antiwar_to-some-degree-it-matters-who-s-in-offic_1940859.jpg) > [I just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-just-went-along-with-political-activists-and-interested-in-other/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5d/noam-chomsky-42_activist_i-just-went-along-with-political-activis_2303470.jpg) > [As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/as-for-academics-i-do-not-see-why-their-responsibilities-as-moral/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/820/noam-chomsky-42_advantage_as-for-academics-i-do-not-see-why-their_2919213.jpg) > [U.S. international and security policy ... has as its primary goal the preservationof what we might call the Fifth Freedom, understood crudely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/u-s-international-and-security-policy-has-as-its-primary-goal-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bef/noam-chomsky-42_accuracy_u-s-international-and-security-policy-ha_1775257.jpg) > [In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/in-the-early-50s-in-the-us-there-was-what-was-called-mccarthyism-and/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/noam-chomsky-42_atheism_in-the-early-50s-in-the-us-there-was-wha_506911.jpg) > [Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/moves-toward-sovereignty-in-iraq-stimulate-pressures-first-for-human/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/018/noam-chomsky-42_alliances_moves-toward-sovereignty-in-iraq-stimula_752953.jpg) ## Other authors on Degrees ## More by Noam Chomsky > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-costs-of-the-bush-obama-wars-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-are-now/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/if-you-believe-in-democracy-why-shouldn-t-you-know-what-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/it-s-a-shameful-moment-for-u-s-media-when-it-insists-on-being/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-are-questions-as-to-whether-it-should-even-exist-who-should/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/governments-regard-their-own-citizens-as-their-main-enemy-and-they/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-don-t-join-the-new-atheists-so-for-example-i-wouldn-t-have-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-first-thing-you-ought-to-do-is-verify-what-i-present-just-because/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [ I wrote an article about the marine landing \[in Haiti\] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-wrote-an-article-about-the-marine-landing-in-haiti-right-away-but/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/american-society-is-now-remarkably-atomized-political-organizations/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/discovery-is-the-ability-to-be-puzzled-by-simple-things-noam-chomsky/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-s-an-interesting-book-about-that-called-the-third-reich-and-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/this-is-class-war-on-an-international-scale-and-power-is-in-the-hands/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-are-big-extremely-irrational-parts-of-the-society-and-they-have/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-s-plenty-to-criticize-about-the-mass-media-but-they-are-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-50-000-korean-mercenaries-we-had-in-vietnam-were-professional/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/degrees/noam-chomsky/#itemlist", "name": "10 Degrees Quotes By Noam Chomsky", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noam Chomsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/latin-america-for-the-first-time-in-500-years-is-moving-towards-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db9/noam-chomsky-42_america_latin-america-for-the-first-time-in-500_565722.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db9/noam-chomsky-42_america_latin-america-for-the-first-time-in-500_565722.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db9/noam-chomsky-42_america_latin-america-for-the-first-time-in-500_565722.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.” — Noam Chomsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noam Chomsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-are-two-parties-so-called-but-they-re-really-factions-of-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/536/noam-chomsky-42_degrees_there-are-two-parties-so-called-but-they_2401064.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/536/noam-chomsky-42_degrees_there-are-two-parties-so-called-but-they_2401064.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/536/noam-chomsky-42_degrees_there-are-two-parties-so-called-but-they_2401064.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.” — Noam Chomsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "America is a very fundamentalist society. 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You can imagine a kind of a loose Shi'ite alliance in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, controlling most of the world's oil and independent of the United States. And much worse, although Europe can be intimidated by the United States, China can't. It's one of the reasons, the main reasons, why China is considered a threat. 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