Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military… — 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
Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite… — 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
The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that… — 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