Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For… — 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
Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Student debt is structured to be a burden for life. The indebted cannot declare bankruptcy, unlike Donald Trump. Current student debt is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look at the minutes of the constitutional convention - which we have - Madison who was the main framer, proceeded… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The very idea that there should be a certain class of people who give orders by virtue of their ownership of wealth… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation,"… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan in the US was not a particularly popular president, but after his death sectors of wealth and power created a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“But for another thing, there's no law of nature which says that control over capital has to be in a few hands―that's… — 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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