International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. — 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
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that… — 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