Talking Quotes by Noam Chomsky

9 Talking quotes by Noam Chomsky

Chomsky’s nine reflections on talking are sharp, analytical, and politically aware, probing the structures behind our speech. The set offers a concise, thought‑provoking glimpse into his linguistic critique.

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I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different…

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On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.

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The literature is like that - they [unions] are constantly talking about the masses, the danger they pose, and how to control…

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Younger people who are being indoctrinated into the contemporary system of falsification - they really have to do some research to find…

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Bolivia is in the lead internationally in talking about the threat of environmental catastrophe. It's generally true where there are indigenous populations,…

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The leading, the most respected Vietnam historian, military historian Bernard Fall -he was a hawk incidentally, but he cared for the Vietnamese…

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[Mikhail] Gorbachev said that he would agree to the unification of Germany, and even adherence of Germany to NATO, which was quite…

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Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called…

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I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing…

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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…

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I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two…

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American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a…

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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…

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This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

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There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…

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There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't…

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The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that…

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