If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States has done some very good things in the world, and that does not change the fact that the World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the United States, the day when you pay your taxes is a day of mourning because this alien force - the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is off the international spectrum in religious extremism. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the… — 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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