In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well, in fact if you look at the Trump voters, you take a look at their attitudes it's not all that different.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The two tendencies are antithetical in significant respects. These are distinctions that should be kept in mind, however one feels that the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.' — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“James Madison framed the constitutional order so that power would be in the hands of the Senate, which represents “the wealth of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nothing is more inspiring to see how poor and suffering people, living under conditions incomparably worse than we endure, continue quietly and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on… — 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