If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who… — 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
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
In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The local grocery store was a gathering, a community place. You knew the owner, if you didn't have any money they'd let… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Remember that in any major nuclear war, the first strike destroys the country that attacks; it's been known for years. The first… — 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
This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements… — 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
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