Every book that comes out, every article that comes out, talks about how - while it may have been a "mistake" or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Major efforts have to be undertaken to bring the general public to understand the real reasons for their plight, and the possibilities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged… — 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
There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't really think there have been transitional periods to socialism. There have been efforts, but they have usually been destroyed by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a narrow class of uses of language where you intend to communicate. Communication refers to an effort to get people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort. — 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
Look at the ozone story. As long as it was the southern hemisphere that was being threatened, there was very little talk… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take a look at the Supreme Court decision that just authorized an effort by U.S. claimants against Iran for terrorist acts. What… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So if you look at the writings of intellectuals, there are two kinds. One said, l"Look, if we fought harder we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's called Obamacare is an effort to mildly change this [health-care system], not change it as far as it should go or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique 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