I don't see how one can "believe in organized religion." What does it mean to believe in an organization? One can join… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The public is easily amenable to lies: the more lies there are, the greater the support for war. For instance, when the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US does not observe the free-trade principles. Those are for the weak. So agribusiness is highly subsidized and pours product into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think half the population supports this ban on these dangerous immigrants who are going to come in and do something, who… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was great anxiety about Russian intervention in the recent German elections, perhaps contributing to the frightening surge of support for the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take a look at the current debates in Washington, and of course, everything in the media. Only one issue is discussed: the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To pay attention to the actual core of the movement - that would be pretty hard. Can you concentrate for example on… — 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
Elements of the Christian fundamentalist right are one of the strongest components of "support for Israel" - support in an odd sense,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One can contrive a religious motivation for virtually any choice of action, from commitment to the highest ideals to support for the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The communists basically acted as the police force of the security system of the [Spain] Republic and were very much opposed to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The developing world voice can be amplified enormously by support from the wealthy and the privileged, otherwise it's very likely to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If Palestinian Authority refuse to join the US-run negotiations, their basis for support would collapse. They survive on donations essentially. Israel has… — 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