If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you… — 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
Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people… Actually,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about… — 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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