Century Quote by Noam Chomsky

The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken but not…

— Noam Chomsky

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early 1960s the…

— Noam Chomsky

What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.

— Noam Chomsky

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the…

— Noam Chomsky

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

— Noam Chomsky

How lucky we are to be able to see and hear so much of our history over the past century as it was happening.…

— Jerry Springer

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it…

— Edith Hall

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

— Paul Krugman

We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe to be…

— Martin Schulz

We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been…

— Annalee Newitz

In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.

— Paul Zane Pilzer