The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Elements of the Christian fundamentalist right are one of the strongest components of "support for Israel" - support in an odd sense,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Israel produces and stores chemical weapons. So therefore the US will prevent the Chemical Weapons Convention from being imposed on the Middle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Saudi, Arabian ruling class, for example, have rights because they are performing a service for Western power, ensuring that oil profits… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Iran has been calling for it for years, and the Arab countries support it. Everyone except the United States and Israel support… — 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