All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured. Abroad
- Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that. Amenable
- As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties. Becomes
- Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. Affect
- In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed… Both
- Israel is a pretty crazy state. Crazy
- I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors. Class
- Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. Aggression
- There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much… Anti
- The childcare tax credit makes some sense. Childcare
- In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send President… Africa
- NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian… Assault
- If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times. Alone
- Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. Changes
- Obama, of course, outspent McCain. Course
- Sometimes I lose my temper. Lose
- The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and… Accept
- In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that… Africa
- You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India. Centers
- The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television. Elections