From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The racism in Europe takes the form of anti-immigrant extremism - which is bad enough here - I think it's hard to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically… — 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