I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the… — 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
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the use of language is a very important means by which this species, because of its biological nature, creates a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats… — 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
The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So if you look at the writings of intellectuals, there are two kinds. One said, l"Look, if we fought harder we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Francisco] Franco's army was mainly Moorish. They were recruiting people from Morocco to come to Spain. There was an uprising in Morocco… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The neoliberal programs of the last generation have in fact been, and were intended to be, a pretty serious attack on democracy,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher… — 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
If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well, in fact if you look at the Trump voters, you take a look at their attitudes it's not all that different.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. . . . This was a horrendous crime . . . The primary victims .… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in… — 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
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
It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Should people be mere "interested spectators of action," not "participants," restricted to lending their weight periodically to one or another sector of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The crimes committed against the people of West Papua are some of the most shameful of the past years. The Western powers… — 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
![“There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they're very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything - a crazy answer, but it's an answer. And it's our fault if that goes on. So one…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cc/noam-chomsky-42_answers_there-s-an-internal-coherence-and-logic_2377640.jpg)
![“[Francisco] Franco's army was mainly Moorish. They were recruiting people from Morocco to come to Spain. There was an uprising in Morocco at the time led by Abd el-Krim (whose tactics influenced Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara) that sought independence for Morocco and Northern Africa.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/noam-chomsky-42_army_francisco-franco-s-army-was-mainly-moori_3219587.jpg)
![“That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a real failure of the intellectual community, including scholarship and the media. It's not like you had headlines all over the place. And it's not secret, the documents are…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/603/noam-chomsky-42_cold_that-s-our-nuclear-weapons-strategy-goin_513674.jpg)
