States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was a really monstrous and almost literal genocide in the Mayan area, specifically under Ríos Montt. By now it has been… — 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
Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Going back to why people don't vote, I presume the main reason is because they understand without reading political science texts that… — 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 senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence.… — 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
It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a narrow class of uses of language where you intend to communicate. Communication refers to an effort to get people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't feel that there is anything deep in the political culture that prevents "educating the masses." I'm old enough to recall… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control.… — 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
In other countries, rich and poor, education remains substantially free, with educational standards that rank high in global comparisons. Even in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I do not feel that we should set up people as “models”; rather actions, thoughts, principles.” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back. — 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
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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