Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, hi...
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party. Noam Chomsky
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. Noam Chomsky
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much. Noam Chomsky
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind. Noam Chomsky
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. Noam Chomsky
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it. Noam Chomsky
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know. Noam Chomsky
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. Noam Chomsky
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. Noam Chomsky
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. Noam Chomsky
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas. Noam Chomsky
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.