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

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has. — 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. — 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

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. — Noam Chomsky

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first. — Noam Chomsky

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff. — John Cusack

Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow. — Noam Chomsky

Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes. — 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

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern. — Noam Chomsky

Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, What kind of peace? — 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. — Noam Chomsky

It's easy to think of things that need to be done, but they all have a prerequisite, namely, a mass popular base that is committed to implementing it. — Noam Chomsky

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted. — Noam Chomsky

My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever. — 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

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them — Noam Chomsky

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

It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks. — Noam Chomsky

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s. — 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

Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection. — 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

It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison. — Noam Chomsky

For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. — Noam Chomsky

It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy. — Noam Chomsky

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge. — Noam Chomsky

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour. — 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

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

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal — 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

In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out. — Noam Chomsky

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays. — Noam Chomsky

People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know. — Noam Chomsky

I like Gramsci. He's an important person. — Noam Chomsky

Deficit reduction is the demand of the financial institutions and the superrich, and in a rapidly declining democracy, that's what counts. — Noam Chomsky

It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination. — Noam Chomsky

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice. — Noam Chomsky

I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret. — Noam Chomsky

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided. — Noam Chomsky

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. — Noam Chomsky

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War. — Noam Chomsky

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education. — Noam Chomsky

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much. — Noam Chomsky

The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed. — Noam Chomsky

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. — Noam Chomsky

It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism. — Noam Chomsky

There's no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan. — Noam Chomsky

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands. — Noam Chomsky

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made. — Christopher Hitchens

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick. — Noam Chomsky

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

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. — Noam Chomsky

THERE'S ALWAYS A CLASS WAR GOING ON — 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

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

International community - a technical term referring to the U.S. government and whoever goes along with it. — Noam Chomsky

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

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore. — Noam Chomsky

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

We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous. — Noam Chomsky

It's not radical Islam that worries the US
it's independence — Noam Chomsky

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place. — Noam Chomsky

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell. — Noam Chomsky

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

It's not a free trade agreement. It has virtually nothing to do with free trade ... It's a protectionist agreement; it's anti free-trade. — Noam Chomsky

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

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it. — 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

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. — Noam Chomsky

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. — Noam Chomsky

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. — Noam Chomsky

Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much, yaknow? — Noam Chomsky

Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology. — Noam Chomsky

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to war. — Noam Chomsky

I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China. — Noam Chomsky

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S. — Noam Chomsky

NATO's essentially run by the United States. — Noam Chomsky

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it. — Noam Chomsky

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it. — Noam Chomsky

The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years. — Noam Chomsky

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment. — Noam Chomsky

Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's really an easy way: Stop participating in it. — Noam Chomsky

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know. — Noam Chomsky

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. — Noam Chomsky

What's the point of being better than someone else? — Noam Chomsky

The workers who built the settlements and produced the export crops may now enjoy their freedom in the world's largest prison.58 — Noam Chomsky

(We're in favor of independence as long as it's in other people's empires, not in our own.) — Noam Chomsky

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections. — Noam Chomsky

Civil disobedience is - it's no fun. — Noam Chomsky

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.? — Noam Chomsky

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent. — Noam Chomsky

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control. — Noam Chomsky

In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state. — Noam Chomsky

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world. — Noam Chomsky

In the case of Israel-Palestine, a one-state solution will arise only on the U.S. model: with extermination or expulsion of the indigenous population. — Noam Chomsky

Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it's growth in a sense ... — Noam Chomsky