China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents,… — 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
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the pre-capitalist world, everyone had a place. It might not have been a very nice place, even maybe a horrible place,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let's take Pravda in the 1980s. I mean you could have read things in Pravda saying that it was a stupid error… — 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
Every book that comes out, every article that comes out, talks about how - while it may have been a "mistake" or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for geoengineering, there have been serious general critiques that I think cannot be ignored, like Clive Hamilton's, along with many positive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Right now, where do we stand? Well right at the Russian border, both sides have been taking provocative actions, both sides are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Part of the uprising of Latin America, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years, has been a reaction to [neoliberal regime],… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump has been very inconsistent on many things; on Twitter he's been all over the place, but some of it is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If there had been a charismatic figure in the United States who could mobilize fears, anger, racism, a sense of loss of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bolivia is in the lead internationally in talking about the threat of environmental catastrophe. It's generally true where there are indigenous populations,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Historically, several policy domains, including that of foreign policy towards the US and India, budget allocations etc, have been controlled by the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let's take Southeast Asia. The last 20, 30 years has been what's called the "Asian Miracle" - fast economic growth, industrial society.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to… — 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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![“You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements of the country that have always been there but were kind of marginal to the political system, for example, religious extremists.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/716/noam-chomsky-42_compelled_you-can-t-get-votes-that-way-so-the-repu_3145195.jpg)
![“Part of the uprising of Latin America, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years, has been a reaction to [neoliberal regime], and they have thrown out a lot of these measures and moved in a different direction. In earlier years, the US would have overthrown the governments or, one way or another…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/255/noam-chomsky-42_america_part-of-the-uprising-of-latin-america-pa_878755.jpg)
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![“[Donald] Trump has been very inconsistent on many things; on Twitter he's been all over the place, but some of it is very consistent. That is: Do nothing about climate change except make it worse. And he's not just speaking for himself, but for the whole Republican Party, the whole leadership…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e8/noam-chomsky-42_change_donald-trump-has-been-very-inconsistent_886141.jpg)
![“[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing support internally, and was compelled to send the vote to Congress, and it looked as if he was going to be defeated, which would have been a very serious blow to his presidency…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f65/noam-chomsky-42_able_barack-obama-was-reaching-a-point-with-s_1066059.jpg)
![“I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc5/noam-chomsky-42_articles_i-wrote-an-article-about-the-marine-land_13341.jpg)
