Heard Quotes by Noam Chomsky

9 Heard quotes by Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky’s nine short comments on being heard capture his analytical style in a succinct collection. This set serves as a quick entry for readers interested in his perspective.

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In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

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I have not suggested that the emergence of language is instantaneous. Rather, that the rewiring of the brain enabling an infinite array…

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Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or…

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You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by…

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I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or…

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From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It…

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Do I believe in God? Can't answer, I'm afraid. I'm not being flippant, but I don't understand the question. What is it…

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Suppose I try to say the US carries out terror, in fact it's one of the leading terrorist states in the world.…

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For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff…

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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.

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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.…

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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…

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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…

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I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two…

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American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a…

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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…

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This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

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There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…

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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…

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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…

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