The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People are interested in authentic long-term, socialist goals, which is not what is usually called socialism. They should be thinking through carefully… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When leaders carry out policies for decades that have no consequences for the stated goal and are very costly, you have to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
England shouldn't have the real freedom of vote and we shouldn't either. Because as [James Madison] put it, one of the primary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The goal of the working class is liberation from exploitation. This goal is not reached and cannot be reached by a new… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the Christian fundamentalists' goals seems to be to rebuild the Temple, which means destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which presumably means… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
U.S. international and security policy ... has as its primary goal the preservationof what we might call the Fifth Freedom, understood crudely… — 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
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The goal is a society in which the basic social unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In my opinion the immediate goal of even committed anarchists should be to defend some state institutions, while helping to pry them… — 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