United Quotes by Noam Chomsky

The United States is absolutely the most dangerous country in the world.

— Noam Chomsky

Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.

— Noam Chomsky

The United States is off the international spectrum in religious extremism.

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NATO's essentially run by the United States.

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If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

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The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

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Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s.

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Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look.

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Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the…

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There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international…

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In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

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In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of…

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The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.

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If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably…

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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all…

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They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared…

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China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that…

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The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening…

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In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved…

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In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed…

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It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to…

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We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the…

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Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum…

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Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons.…

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There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If…

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If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they…

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It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of…

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To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at…

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Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society…

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If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business…

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That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the…

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There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a…

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When Nazi emissaries came to the United States, they were welcomed at Harvard.

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The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

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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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The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.

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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United…

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If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to…

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Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.

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The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international…

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