If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The current period of regression is registering some success in "producing people" who are subordinated to external power, diverted to such "superficial… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I listen to talk radio a lot and it's kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[With] military threats, you can see them actually, you can imagine it. People don't think about it enough. But if you think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most dramatic case is that of the Central Americans. Why are people fleeing Central America? It's because of the atrocities the… — 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
If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am thinking of actual cases of adolescents, lets say, who think they have five hundred friends, because there are five hundred… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without… — 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
Nothing is more inspiring to see how poor and suffering people, living under conditions incomparably worse than we endure, continue quietly and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.... Actually,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible. — 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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