The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same… — 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
Take a look at the current debates in Washington, and of course, everything in the media. Only one issue is discussed: the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to:… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book by the former Brazilian ambassador Celso Amorim. In 2010, he initiated an effort along with Turkey to settle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, for the majority of the population, wages and incomes have stagnated and conditions have gotten worse. So they are asking,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they… — 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