When I was growing up in the 1930s and '40s anti-Semitism was rampant. It wasn't like Nazi Germany but it was pretty… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For example, when my father was able to buy a secondhand car in the late 1930s, and he took us to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It was reported in the left-wing press in the late 1930s that the Texas Company (Texaco), headed by the Nazi sympathizer Torkild… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The human species is now at a point where it has to make choices that are going to determine whether decent survival… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning… — 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
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