If the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate… — 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
I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the use of language is a very important means by which this species, because of its biological nature, creates a… — 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
If we understood, as we do not, the physical bases for intellectual structures, I have little doubt that we would find structures… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am thinking of actual cases of adolescents, lets say, who think they have five hundred friends, because there are five hundred… — 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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