Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for geoengineering, there have been serious general critiques that I think cannot be ignored, like Clive Hamilton's, along with many positive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To construct a scientific theory from the data and to be able to recognize that it is a reasonable theory is possible… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US does not observe the free-trade principles. Those are for the weak. So agribusiness is highly subsidized and pours product into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened… — 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
What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation… — 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
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The basic principle is that the losers have to confess, not the victors. When they do it, it's a crime. When we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others;… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is… — 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 good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that… — 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