There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media. — 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
Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system. — 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
There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because… — 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
Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both countries [Pakistan and India]. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house,… — 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
Andorrans deserve much better than the rule of superstitious hysterics and extreme authoritarians, who try to instill obedience to their Holy Texts… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So if you look at the writings of intellectuals, there are two kinds. One said, l"Look, if we fought harder we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That's a point that Dan Ellsberg has made for years. He said it's kind of like if you and I go into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more… — 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 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
The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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
I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child… — 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
Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say it has some historical analogs. It's kind of reminiscent of what happened in Germany in the late Weimar… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A colonial war is a very dirty kind of war. You're not fighting armed forces. You're fighting mostly unarmed people. And to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't think all thinking is a kind of rational structure. But I don't think it is correct to identify the rational-nonrational… — 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 kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it. — 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
Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet… — 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
Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
With regard to nuclear weapons, it's kind of hard to say. [Donald Trump] is said lots of things. The national security experts… — 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
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