Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Ottoman Empire . . . The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to find weapons of destruction, you can find them all over the place. Take, say, Israel. There is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've often been struck by the extensive knowledge that people have of sports, and particularly, their self-confidence in discussing it with experts.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen… — 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
It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Real schools ought to provide people with techniques of self-defense, but that would mean teaching the truth about the world and about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean,… — 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