If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Physics and those parts of other fields that grow out of physics - chemistry, the structure of big molecules - in those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake. — 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
We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory has nothing to say, in general, as to whether cheating is more advantageous than cooperating. There are many circumstances in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time working on declassified documents - and they do get declassified after decades - you look at… — 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
One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is little doubt that a significant part of any serious solution will require advances of technology, but that can only be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40 years. It goes back farther, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm into eating as little as possible... I never cook. Never use the stove or anything. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Look at the ozone story. As long as it was the southern hemisphere that was being threatened, there was very little talk… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's called Obamacare is an effort to mildly change this [health-care system], not change it as far as it should go or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm into eating as little as possible, paying as little attention as possible. I never cook. Never use the stove or anything. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we understood, as we do not, the physical bases for intellectual structures, I have little doubt that we would find structures… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We don't think about it, but it has a tremendous effect. But these are things you don't see right in front of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton… — 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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