World Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

— Noam Chomsky

The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years.

— Noam Chomsky

The United States is absolutely the most dangerous country in the world.

— Noam Chomsky

The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.

— Noam Chomsky

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

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It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.

— Noam Chomsky

For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

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Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.

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Stability means you do what we say, and what we say is that Colombia and the resources of the Andean region shall…

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Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the…

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There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international…

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Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history…

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Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare.

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The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize…

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The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other…

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In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is…

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There are in fact many ways to combat the Trump project of creating a tiny America, isolated from the world, cowering in…

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English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the…

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A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the…

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It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the…

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If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring,…

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To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at…

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It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level…

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By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority…

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There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as…

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In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child…

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We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In…

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But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to…

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North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear…

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My suspicion is that those who seem oblivious to suffering, whether it is nearby or in remote corners, are for the most…

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I am not sure just what Marx had in mind when he wrote that "philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in…

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In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development.…

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The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is…

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There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

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In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.

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I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

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For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

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People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

— Noam Chomsky