There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are simple things which would make sense. Take, say, weatherization, which would make a big cut in the unemployment rate. That's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is little doubt that a significant part of any serious solution will require advances of technology, but that can only be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. — 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
The human species is now at a point where it has to make choices that are going to determine whether decent survival… — 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
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions. — 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
About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One should be cautious about "general conceptions." I think a strong case can be made that activism today is as high as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant… — 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
You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United… — 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
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