The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed… — 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
What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So if you look at the writings of intellectuals, there are two kinds. One said, l"Look, if we fought harder we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people… — 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
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it. — 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
The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened… — 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
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've… — 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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