I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that as human beings, we quite naturally take for granted what is similar among human beings and, then, pay attention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Women taking care of children . . . it makes sense to pay them for that work . . . they should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs.… — 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
What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If some small storekeeper somewhere decides he's not going to pay the money, the Godfather doesn't let him get away with it.… — 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
The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The obvious one, in a market system, in a really functioning one, whoever's making the decisions doesn't pay attention to what are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take Germany and Japan, both defeated in the Second World War. Germany has acknowledged its monstrous crimes to a certain extent, has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Somebodys paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. Theyre getting paid by the American taxpayer in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In a democracy the day when you pay your taxes, April 15, would be a day of celebration, because you're getting together… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the United States, the day when you pay your taxes is a day of mourning because this alien force - the… — 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
If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to:… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know 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
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