Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished. — 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
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
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
NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not. — 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
In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything… — 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
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
The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not… — 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
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
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
Part of the uprising of Latin America, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years, has been a reaction to [neoliberal regime],… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the West, you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Latin America wants to decriminalize at least marijuana (maybe more or course;) the US wants to maintain it. An interesting story. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons.… — 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
There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It's in lockstep obedience to the very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there… — 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
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