Different Quotes by Noam Chomsky

If you have worker-owned and worker-managed enterprises, you've got a different sociopolitical system.

— Noam Chomsky

The U.S. is different from Europe and other industrial countries.

— Noam Chomsky

Workers in different countries can easily be played off against each other.

— Noam Chomsky

The dynamics of the Taliban now appear to be very different and complex, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they attack governments…

— Noam Chomsky

The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second…

— Noam Chomsky

We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about…

— Noam Chomsky

A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different…

— Noam Chomsky

I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals…

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In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything…

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When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called…

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Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go…

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We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In…

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Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and…

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We naturally assume that our mental structures are universal. But I suppose an outside biologist looking at us would see something very…

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The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,…

— Noam Chomsky

Part of the uprising of Latin America, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years, has been a reaction to [neoliberal regime],…

— Noam Chomsky

The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It's in lockstep obedience to the very…

— Noam Chomsky

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened…

— Noam Chomsky

The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,…

— Noam Chomsky

If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages…

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Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that…

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What happened in the following years? Well, I think that among the educated classes it stayed the same. You talk about humanitarian…

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If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state…

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It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed…

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In fact, it's pretty dramatic when you get to 1975, very revealing, the [Vietnam] war ends. Everybody had to write something about…

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It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to…

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I suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs.…

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When leaders carry out policies for decades that have no consequences for the stated goal and are very costly, you have to…

— Noam Chomsky

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society,…

— Noam Chomsky

U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with…

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In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example,…

— Noam Chomsky

We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to…

— Noam Chomsky

More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive…

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As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the…

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If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push…

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They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A…

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The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now…

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For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could…

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