What happened in the following years? Well, I think that among the educated classes it stayed the same. You talk about humanitarian… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's… — 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
After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That's a point that Dan Ellsberg has made for years. He said it's kind of like if you and I go into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The real invasion of South Vietnam which was directed largely against the rural society began directly in 1962 after many years of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if… — 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
Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40 years. It goes back farther, but… — 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
For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Actually, my first article, it wasn't about the anarchists; it was about the fall of Barcelona and the spread of fascism over… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at… — 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
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Europe is being subjected to the kinds of programs that devastated Latin America for many years. Latin America has thrown them out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Remember that in any major nuclear war, the first strike destroys the country that attacks; it's been known for years. The first… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I mean, the liberal democrats aren't going to tell the average American, "Yeah, you're being shafted because of the policies that we've… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We can try to gain some of the sensibility of some of the indigenous populations of the world or our predecessors 800… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry to the country because he wrote on Kashmir. This is a reflection of fractures within society. Pakistan, too, has to focus on the Lashkar [Lashkar-i-Taiba] and other similar…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/78d/noam-chomsky-42_compromise_a-good-american-friend-of-mine-who-has-l_2328118.jpg)
![“For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff I was taking about. In 1990-91, no Russian hordes. Okay, what happens? Well there are actually visions of the future system that were presented. One was [Mikhail] Gorbachev…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/71f/noam-chomsky-42_common_for-fifty-years-we-heard-nato-is-necessa_1276924.jpg)
![“In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much run by private concentrated spending but now it's over the top. Elections increasingly over the years have been [public relations] extravaganzas.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cce/noam-chomsky-42_democracy_in-the-us-first-of-all-the-electoral-sys_641045.jpg)
![“I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc5/noam-chomsky-42_articles_i-wrote-an-article-about-the-marine-land_13341.jpg)
