Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion… — 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
It's commonly assumed that the emergence of language was a key element of the great leap. We of course know very little… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[My father] came over as an immigrant and didn't know any English. He went to work at a sweat shop in Baltimore.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A large part of the left is pro-Assad. In those circles, you can't criticize Assad, but you know he's a monstrous war… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
How many educated Americans can even remember the names of the assassinated Jesuit intellectuals of El Salvador, or would know where to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't have time, you know - I want to be able to get it [information] instantly on the internet and not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Very commonly I get queries. Somebody saw something of mine on YouTube and of course if there is a talk on YouTube,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't claim to know a lot about Mexico, but I did talk to quite a number of left Mexican intelectuals, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When people know we are ready to use nuclear weapons, they're going to back off if we do something aggressive. So basically,… — 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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