The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What is important to us is to reverse the shameful course being pursued by America. It won't be easy, but it must… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
How do I define God? I don't… People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One contribution scientists can and should make is to be clear and explicit about the limits of scientific understanding, a matter that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no… — 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
Qatar-based 'Al-Jazeera,' the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having 'emphasized civilian… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's easy to put [serious threats] aside, and the media don't talk about them. Other things are more important. How am I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The two countries [Pakistan and India] have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with… — 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
Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored;… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's a class war, and a war on young people too... that's why tuition is rising so rapidly. There's no real economic… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By… — 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
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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