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It seems self-evident that we...

It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions about matters of concern to them, to the largest possible extent.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

The Second World War had real...

The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state capitalist democracies because it was in people's heads. There were other parts of the world that were pretty much devastated and they couldn't do it; they didn't have the conceptions in their mind. A lot of it is human consciousness.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

Isn't it interesting that eat...

Isn't it interesting that eating a banana is somehow comical.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

In the United States, and to ...

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

With regard to nuclear weapon...

With regard to nuclear weapons, it's kind of hard to say. [Donald Trump] is said lots of things. The national security experts are terrified. But they're more terrified by his personality than by his statements.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

I don't like piracy but if an...

I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

In America, we happen to be l...

In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development. I came back from New York yesterday and I took the fastest train in the country, the Acela. My wife and I took the New York-Boston train sixty years ago - it wasn't called the Acela then - and I think it's improved by about fifteen minutes since then. Any other country in the world would be about half the time. In fact when it's riding along the Connecticut turnpike it's barely keeping up with traffic, which is just scandalous.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

Any incident could instantly ...

Any incident could instantly blow up. Both sides [USA and Russia] are modernizing and increasing their military systems, including nuclear systems.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

Any little issue - Miss Unive...

Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

Given their unusual privilege...

Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

There's a tremendous amount o...

There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most dramatic language loss is in Europe.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

I have written occasionally o...

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

I think half the population s...

I think half the population supports this ban on these dangerous immigrants who are going to come in and do something, who knows what. And meanwhile the countries that really have been involved in terrorism, they're out. It's kind of like I think it was Oklahoma banning Sharia law.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

I'm into eating as little as ...

I'm into eating as little as possible, paying as little attention as possible. I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

Take a look at public opinion...

Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally wrong and immoral, not a mistake. And that attitude lasted as long as polls were taken in the early '80s.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

To understand how people orga...

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

I'm sorry to say it has some ...

I'm sorry to say it has some historical analogs. It's kind of reminiscent of what happened in Germany in the late Weimar years.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

Take something you really don...

Take something you really don't think about: Plastics in the ocean. I mean plastics in the ocean have an enormous ecological effect.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

There's kind of a hidden poin...

There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would permit democracy in the Middle East, and for a very simple reason. Just take a look at polls of Arab public opinion. They exist. You can't find them in the press, but they exist from prestigious polling agencies. Released by major institutions. And what they show is that if there was democracy in the Middle East, the entire U.S. program for domination of the Middle East would be down the tube.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

How many educated Americans c...

How many educated Americans can even remember the names of the assassinated Jesuit intellectuals of El Salvador, or would know where to find a word they wrote? The answers are revealing, particularly when we draw the striking - and historically typical - contrast to the attitudes towards their counterparts in enemy domains.

Noam Avram Chomsky 821 quotes

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