It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a 'third force,'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Because the 1979 strike against U.S. Steel in Youngstown, Ohio was an occupation - and actually, that's a model that really should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 bans militarization. Potential adversaries of the US, and even its allies, are so far… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Students typically are at a period of their lives when they're more free than at any other time. They're out of parental… — 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
Since November 8, 2017 the United States is literally alone in the world in first of all refusing to join in efforts… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My memory - faded, as I say - is that Paul Johnson was trying to vilify all intellectuals who were at all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Suppose I try to say the US carries out terror, in fact it's one of the leading terrorist states in the world.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the Christian Coalition could be extremely dangerous. We should always be concerned when any group wants to impose their doctrinal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The missile defense component is a minor feature that nobody takes very seriously. Nobody really believes that the US is trying to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite… — 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
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
