Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I haven't read Horowitz. I didn't used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don't read him today. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When people know we are ready to use nuclear weapons, they're going to back off if we do something aggressive. So basically,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Suppose that insect wings developed primarily as thermoregulators and then were used for skimming and finally flying, evolving along the way. What… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every predecessor has used mercenaries, often drawn from the country that they're attacking like England ran India with Indian mercenaries. You take… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let's take Adam Smith, the patron-saint of capitalism, what did he think? He thought the main human instinct was sympathy. In fact,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't use the social media but I can see the effects in my own correspondence. I get a ton of correspondence.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I grew up in that, when I was a kid. My friends and I used to play cowboys and Indians. We were… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their… — 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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