“Well, in my view what would ultimately be necessary would be a breakdown of the nation-state system―because I think that's not a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Iraq War is the first war in history, in which there were huge demonstrations before the war was launched, not beginning… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say it has some historical analogs. It's kind of reminiscent of what happened in Germany in the late Weimar… — 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
In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe...… — 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
“The record of anarchist ideas, and even more, of the inspiring struggles of people who have sought to liberate themselves from oppression… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In fact, a lot of life is hopeless today, even for middle-class kids. I mean, for the first time in I think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“You hear it in every political speech, “vote for me, we’ll get the dream back.” They all reiterate it in similar words—you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and… — 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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