Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures - it’s inevitable. But unless… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It's in lockstep obedience to the very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level… — 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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