Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That intellectuals, including academics, would become a "new class" of technocrats, claiming the name of science while cooperating with the powerful, was… — 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
If [Respulicans] can't get rid of [Obamacare], they're going to have to tell their base, we've been lying to you for the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old… — 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