Thinking Quotes by Noam Chomsky

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

— Noam Chomsky

The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.

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Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what…

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I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot…

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In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is…

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While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable…

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I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.

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I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

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I happen to agree with the anti-dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or…

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The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if…

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It's very hard to look in the mirror. We all know this. It's much easier to have illusions about yourself. And in…

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I am not offering this is a critique of the internet, its just that there are a lot of factors involved. It…

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The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same…

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I think that sooner or later the white working-class constituency will recognize, and in fact, much of the rural population will come…

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I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me…

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Let's imagine again an observer looking at us without any preconceptions. I think he would be struck by the fact that although…

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And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is…

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There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as…

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There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not…

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Israel produces and stores chemical weapons. So therefore the US will prevent the Chemical Weapons Convention from being imposed on the Middle…

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I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features…

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Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a…

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I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational…

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When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called…

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I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

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I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

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This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.

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Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

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I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his…

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I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

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My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called…

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In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful.

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I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and…

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Take something you really don't think about: Plastics in the ocean. I mean plastics in the ocean have an enormous ecological effect.

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I think the Christian Coalition could be extremely dangerous. We should always be concerned when any group wants to impose their doctrinal…

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I don't think all thinking is a kind of rational structure. But I don't think it is correct to identify the rational-nonrational…

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The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects…

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In the West, you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only…

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I think that we have basically nothing in the field of human behavior. Maybe that is just a condition of temporary ignorance.…

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For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect…

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