If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders..... At the very bottom of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That's a point that Dan Ellsberg has made for years. He said it's kind of like if you and I go into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying,… — 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
If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational. — 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
Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the NAACP were to impose a control of something towards all, then I would staunchly oppose it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of… — 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
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
If you sell me a car, we have perhaps made a good bargain for ourselves. But there are effects of this transaction… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There… — 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 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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