Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western… — 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
