Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state… — 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
“People are called intellectuals because they're privileged. It's not because they're smart or they know a lot. There are plenty of people… — 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
I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place. — 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
Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Well, it's true that the anarchist vision in just about all its varieties has looked forward to dismantling state power―and personally I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“[...] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was… — 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