In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A… — 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
Wikileaks is providing information on what ambassadors are sending to Washington and things like that. Maybe some of that has a right… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Europe is being subjected to the kinds of programs that devastated Latin America for many years. Latin America has thrown them out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want information about sports, I can tell you things from the 1940's, and the couple years that my grandson was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I listen to talk radio a lot and it's kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The communists basically acted as the police force of the security system of the [Spain] Republic and were very much opposed to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is… — 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
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
This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements… — 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