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
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
Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago,… — 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
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
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
Many of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama eight years ago. You remember, of course, his… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The struggle against slavery went on forever, the struggle for women's rights has been going on for centuries, the effort to overcome"wage… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Over the last 25 years, the major popular movements that have had significant impact on the general society and have changed it,… — 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
“You can find things in the traditional religions which are very benign and decent and wonderful and so on, but I mean,… — 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
“Eighty years ago, Martin Heidegger extolled Nazi Germany as providing the best hope for rescuing the glorious civilization of the Greeks from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as… — 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
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
“To begin with, we have to be more clear about what we mean by patriotic feelings. For a time when I was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development.… — 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
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
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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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