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
[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the use of language is a very important means by which this species, because of its biological nature, creates a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US and Canada are now increasingly isolated in the hemisphere, and sooner or later, I think we're going to find that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Occupy was not a movement, it was a tactic. You can't sit forever in a park near Wall Street. You can't do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's very hard to look in the mirror. We all know this. It's much easier to have illusions about yourself. And in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Wikileaks is providing information on what ambassadors are sending to Washington and things like that. Maybe some of that has a right… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you and I go into a store to rob it, and I say "shoot," that's not protected. Like all judicial decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Israel produces and stores chemical weapons. So therefore the US will prevent the Chemical Weapons Convention from being imposed on the Middle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful. — 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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