The United States is alone among all the countries in that it does not permit US military forces to be under any… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, when drugs are legalized, use sometimes goes down, it's been claimed. Part of the reason is that teenage kids use… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The idea that Hezbollah is acting as an agent of Iran is very dubious. It's not accepted by specialists on Iran or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You've just got to get people organized and tell them the truth. There aren't any magic tricks to it. You know, sometimes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing… — 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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