Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state… — 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.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions.… — 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
Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your… — 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