It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy,… — 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
Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore… — 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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