I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
NOAM CHOMSKYI took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
NOAM CHOMSKYI didn’t pay my taxes for years.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKYThey come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
NOAM CHOMSKYRomania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
NOAM CHOMSKYAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhile the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
NOAM CHOMSKYUnlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
NOAM CHOMSKY