What's called Obamacare is an effort to mildly change this [health-care system], not change it as far as it should go or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'll have 15 letters today from mostly young kids who don't like what's going on and want to do something about it,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As to whether those who fit the common meaning of the term "intellectual" should act in the manner that [ Edward] Said… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bradley Manning should be regarded as a hero. He is doing what an honest, decent citizen should be doing: letting your population… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Wikileaks is providing information on what ambassadors are sending to Washington and things like that. Maybe some of that has a right… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Because the 1979 strike against U.S. Steel in Youngstown, Ohio was an occupation - and actually, that's a model that really should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Zionist movement based in Palestine pretty much took over the camps and instituted the policy that every man and woman between… — 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
A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or… — 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