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
The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Just take ease of interchange between people. Your email is of course faster than letter - on the other hand the transition… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look at the minutes of the constitutional convention - which we have - Madison who was the main framer, proceeded… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let's take Adam Smith, the patron-saint of capitalism, what did he think? He thought the main human instinct was sympathy. In fact,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On the other hand, you have to balance that against expanding our nuclear forces, add to our so-called depleted military, which is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a… — 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