Language would have evolved first as an internal object, a kind of "language of thought" (LOT), with externalisation (hence communication) an ancillary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Right to a speedy jury trial and so on and so forth. But what do they mean by 'person'? It certainly didn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — 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
Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Put yourself in the position of a person, sort of an ordinary American, "I'm a hard-working, god-fearing Christian. I take care of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know.… — 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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