There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is undoubtedly much to learn about the social uses of language, for communication or for other purposes. But at present there… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Major efforts have to be undertaken to bring the general public to understand the real reasons for their plight, and the possibilities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe...… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a narrow class of uses of language where you intend to communicate. Communication refers to an effort to get people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences. — 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