Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming… — 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
In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My feeling is that the Supreme Court reached a reasonable standard of protection of speech in the 1960s, a standard higher than… — 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
During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early… — 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
