The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the… — 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
Occupy was not a movement, it was a tactic. You can't sit forever in a park near Wall Street. You can't do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To pay attention to the actual core of the movement - that would be pretty hard. Can you concentrate for example on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Zionist movement based in Palestine pretty much took over the camps and instituted the policy that every man and woman between… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a… — 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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