If the NAACP were to impose a control of something towards all, then I would staunchly oppose it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation with India). — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation). — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because… — 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
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, when drugs are legalized, use sometimes goes down, it's been claimed. Part of the reason is that teenage kids use… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you read people like say Bruce Blair one of the leading, most sober, knowledgeable specialists, he says, look, [Donald Trump] statements… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Very commonly I get queries. Somebody saw something of mine on YouTube and of course if there is a talk on YouTube,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look at the Associated Press wires, there's a constant flow of information coming in. At that time I happened to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational. — 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
If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The evangelicals. . . . If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem. — 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
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share