When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why. — 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
The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say it has some historical analogs. It's kind of reminiscent of what happened in Germany in the late Weimar… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want information about sports, I can tell you things from the 1940's, and the couple years that my grandson was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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
The number of illegal firings tripled during the [Ronald] Reagan years. It was at that time that you started getting these companies… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton… — 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
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
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
As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism… — 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
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
For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his… — 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
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