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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
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
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
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
Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, What kind of peace?
— 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
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
For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.
— Noam Chomsky
The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.
— 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
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
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
— 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
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
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
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
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'
— Noam Chomsky
It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.
— Noam Chomsky
Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.
— 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
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
Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.
— 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
