The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The very idea that there should be a certain class of people who give orders by virtue of their ownership of wealth… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But . . . lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The idea that Hezbollah is acting as an agent of Iran is very dubious. It's not accepted by specialists on Iran or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Russians were doing a lot of rotten things, you can point to them. But the idea that if you consider what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A lot of association on the internet is highly constructive. There are people interacting, interchanging ideas, making plans, coordinating activities; take any… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine which says… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive… — 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
We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that… — 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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