Account Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

— Noam Chomsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

— Noam Chomsky

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

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

— Noam Chomsky