Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every predecessor has used mercenaries, often drawn from the country that they're attacking like England ran India with Indian mercenaries. You take… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every book that comes out, every article that comes out, talks about how - while it may have been a "mistake" or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us]… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative… — 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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