The neoliberal programs of the last generation have in fact been, and were intended to be, a pretty serious attack on democracy,… — 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
Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
South America has virtually broken away in the last decade. That's an event of historic significance. South America just doesn't follow US… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Looking at polls of Arab public opinion, you look at popular figures, the most popular figure is the prime minister of Turkey,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The real invasion of South Vietnam which was directed largely against the rural society began directly in 1962 after many years of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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
France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, what were called the socialist countries in Eastern Europe were the most anti-socialist systems in the world. Workers had more… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have to recognize that there is a range of interests, like there isn't a single corporate interest and a single state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, it's pretty dramatic when you get to 1975, very revealing, the [Vietnam] war ends. Everybody had to write something about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why not stakeholder action? There's no economic principal that says that management should be responsive to shareholders, in fact you can read… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, he is doing it all over the world. Obama is running the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If [Respulicans] can't get rid of [Obamacare], they're going to have to tell their base, we've been lying to you for the… — 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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well, in fact if you look at the Trump voters, you take a look at their attitudes it's not all that different.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Suppose I try to say the US carries out terror, in fact it's one of the leading terrorist states in the world.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States has done some very good things in the world, and that does not change the fact that the World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, various lawyers' groups - to some extent in the U.S. but mostly in England and Canada and elsewhere - are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political… — 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
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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