Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen. — 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
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I happen to agree with the anti-dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Trump's principal policies make clear what's going to happen. This gives an opportunity. Right now it's going to take hard work, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab… — 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
In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Dissidents are not imprisoned as in the domains of the Kremlin, in the old days. They do not have their brains blown… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That's a large part of the source of the gun culture. You have to have a gun when you go into Starbucks,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Allowing an independent and sovereign Iraq could be a nightmare for the United States. It would mean that it would be Shi'ite-dominated,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By accident of geography, the world's major oil resources are in Shi'ite-dominated areas. Iran's oil is concentrated right near the gulf, which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: that’s where… — 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
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