When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'll have 15 letters today from mostly young kids who don't like what's going on and want to do something about it,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A lot of association on the internet is highly constructive. There are people interacting, interchanging ideas, making plans, coordinating activities; take any… — 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
...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of… — 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
Allowing an independent and sovereign Iraq could be a nightmare for the United States. It would mean that it would be Shi'ite-dominated,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist… — 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
The most extreme types, like Murray Rothbard, are at least honest. They'd like to eliminate highway taxes because they force you to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't think that any deal was needed: Iran was not a threat. Even if Iran were a threat, there was a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a split in the US about how this [split] will be resolved. The main point to look at is the split… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Looking at polls of Arab public opinion, you look at popular figures, the most popular figure is the prime minister of Turkey,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Should we even have the classification system? Why shouldn't these things be open? There are things you want to keep secret, like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's called Obamacare is an effort to mildly change this [health-care system], not change it as far as it should go or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which… — 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
Rush Limbaugh has answered - it's the rich liberals who own the banks and run the government, and of course run the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Elements of the Christian fundamentalist right are one of the strongest components of "support for Israel" - support in an odd sense,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bradley Manning should be regarded as a hero. He is doing what an honest, decent citizen should be doing: letting your population… — 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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![“There's a split in the US about how this [split] will be resolved. The main point to look at is the split within the Republican Party. The Republican establishment, and Wall Street, and the bankers, and the corporate executives and so on, they don't want this. They don't want it at all. It's the…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ad/noam-chomsky-42_bankers_there-s-a-split-in-the-us-about-how-this_404744.jpg)
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