People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a principle of human affairs that goes back millennia, which is that you don't look in the mirror. You can… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the… — 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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