Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at… — 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
Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Do I believe in God? Can't answer, I'm afraid. I'm not being flippant, but I don't understand the question. What is it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Students typically are at a period of their lives when they're more free than at any other time. They're out of parental… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's a class war, and a war on young people too... that's why tuition is rising so rapidly. There's no real economic… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama eight years ago. You remember, of course, his… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Sanders campaign showed that a candidate with mildly progressive programs could win the nomination, maybe the election, even without the backing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't see how one can "believe in organized religion." What does it mean to believe in an organization? One can join… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We don't have polls from the business world, but it's pretty clear that the energy corporations in America would be quite happy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would… — 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
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I mean the reason the sit-down strikes struck such fear in the hearts of management was that they knew that a sit-down… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for 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