There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You also have to get beyond that to dismantle the system of production for profit rather than production for use. That means… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized. — 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
In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising… — 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
I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Saudi, Arabian ruling class, for example, have rights because they are performing a service for Western power, ensuring that oil profits… — 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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