If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — 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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is real. This is the real mad man theory. We have to be irrational and vindictive, so people don't know what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We must present a national persona of being irrational and vindictive, because that's going to terrify people. And then, they'll back off.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People are interested in authentic long-term, socialist goals, which is not what is usually called socialism. They should be thinking through carefully… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If there had been a charismatic figure in the United States who could mobilize fears, anger, racism, a sense of loss of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Suppose I try to say the US carries out terror, in fact it's one of the leading terrorist states in the world.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't know what it means to say that 'the internet should have a voice in Washington'. — 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
Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I happened to go to a school when I was a kid and that's all we did, pursue our own interests. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In southern culture, possession of a gun became kind of a sign of manhood, not just because of slaves but other white… — 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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