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
There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it… — 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
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the Christian Coalition could be extremely dangerous. We should always be concerned when any group wants to impose their doctrinal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't claim to know a lot about Mexico, but I did talk to quite a number of left Mexican intelectuals, and… — 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
A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to… — 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
Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Saudi, Arabian ruling class, for example, have rights because they are performing a service for Western power, ensuring that oil profits… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital… — 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