Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders..... At the very bottom of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example,… — 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
Every book that comes out, every article that comes out, talks about how - while it may have been a "mistake" or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored;… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that we have basically nothing in the field of human behavior. Maybe that is just a condition of temporary ignorance.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The local grocery store was a gathering, a community place. You knew the owner, if you didn't have any money they'd let… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The shutdown itself is bad but not devastating. The real danger will come up in a couple of weeks. There's legislation which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some [people] may be "servants of the power structure," but that has to be shown. I think it often can be shown,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most extreme types, like Murray Rothbard, are at least honest. They'd like to eliminate highway taxes because they force you to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may… — 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
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . .… — 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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