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The choice is ours, the choice is yours. — Noam Chomsky

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy. — Noam Chomsky

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. — Noam Chomsky

If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, ... let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second. — Noam Chomsky

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s. — Noam Chomsky

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up. — Noam Chomsky

The intelligent minority are a "specialized class" who are responsible for setting policy and for "the formation of a sound public opinion, — Noam Chomsky

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. — Noam Chomsky

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase. — Noam Chomsky

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power — Noam Chomsky

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced. — Noam Chomsky

Bombing of urban areas was not considered a war crime at Nuremberg; reason is, the West did more of it than the Germans. — 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. — Noam Chomsky

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. — Noam Chomsky

There is, in fact, a strong case to be made that a prime concern of government is the security of state power from the population. As — Noam Chomsky

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against. — Noam Chomsky

The people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace. — Noam Chomsky

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society. — Noam Chomsky

The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they're being objective. — Noam Chomsky

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. — Noam Chomsky

intellectuals are typically privileged; privilege yields opportunity, and opportunity confers responsibilities. An individual then has choices. — Noam Chomsky

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust. — Noam Chomsky

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.' — Noam Chomsky

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication. — Noam Chomsky

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that. — Noam Chomsky

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous. — Noam Chomsky

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow. — Noam Chomsky

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns. — Noam Chomsky

Education is imposed ignorance. — Noam Chomsky

The childcare tax credit makes some sense. — Noam Chomsky

Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. — Noam Chomsky

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions. — Noam Chomsky

If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight. — Noam Chomsky

States are not moral agents. — Noam Chomsky

Palestinians have no wealth or power. — Noam Chomsky

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure. — Noam Chomsky

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others. — Noam Chomsky

It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise. — Noam Chomsky

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. — Noam Chomsky

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence. — Noam Chomsky

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived. — Noam Chomsky

The point of advertising is to destroy markets. — Noam Chomsky

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done. — Noam Chomsky

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. — Noam Chomsky

Government actually grew during the Reagan years. — Noam Chomsky

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties. — Noam Chomsky

It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes. — Noam Chomsky

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover. — Noam Chomsky

The suppression of the State cannot be a languid affair; it must be the task of the Revolution to finish with the State. — Noam Chomsky

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed. — Noam Chomsky

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before. — Noam Chomsky

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. — Noam Chomsky

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. — Noam Chomsky

The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have. — Noam Chomsky

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself. — Noam Chomsky

War is a racket. The few profit, the many pay. — Noam Chomsky

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. — Noam Chomsky

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything. — Noam Chomsky

Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles. — Noam Chomsky

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system. — Noam Chomsky

Chomsky is a pencil-and-paper theoretician who wouldn't know Jabba the Hutt from the Cookie Monster, — Steven Pinker

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known. — Noam Chomsky

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.' — Noam Chomsky

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. — Noam Chomsky

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT. — Noam Chomsky

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened. — Noam Chomsky

A democracy is a system in which you are free to do whatever you like as long as you do what we tell you. — Noam Chomsky

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. — Noam Chomsky

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. — Noam Chomsky

The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise. — Noam Chomsky

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. — Noam Chomsky

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war. — Noam Chomsky

Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision. — Noam Chomsky

I didn't pay my taxes for years. — Noam Chomsky

The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways. — Noam Chomsky

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured. — Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader's attention from the plain truth. — Sidney Hook

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. — Noam Chomsky

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. — Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces. — Noam Chomsky

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is. — Noam Chomsky

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what? — Walter Kirn

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable. — Noam Chomsky

The principle of universality is not a 'theory'. Just moral truism. — Noam Chomsky

If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope. — Noam Chomsky

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror. — Noam Chomsky

I do not feel that we should set up people as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles. — Noam Chomsky

I'm into eating as little as possible ... I never cook. Never use the stove or anything. — Noam Chomsky

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open. — Noam Chomsky

He who controls the media controls the minds of the public. — Noam Chomsky

Not all evils can be rectified, but ongoing evils surely should stop. — Noam Chomsky

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence. — Noam Chomsky

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. — Noam Chomsky

People tend to rally around power. — Noam Chomsky

If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out. — Noam Chomsky

There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense. — Noam Chomsky