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Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Born: Dec 7, 1928
American Been People War World You
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The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina. Noam Chomsky
Holding Secured Must Economic Southeast Southeast Asia Essential Hold Asia Interests Strategic Therefore
The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously. Noam Chomsky
Construction Engineering Society Changed Project Complex System Physical Clearly Massive Very America Quite Suburban Elaborate Social Really Social Engineering
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' 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 Chomsky
History Took Crimes Relative Stated Scale Horrors Nagasaki Unspeakable Most Hiroshima Auschwitz Just Where Stand Among Bombing Position
Israel is a pretty crazy state. Noam Chomsky
Crazy State Pretty Israel
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. Noam Chomsky
Nature Human Nature Every Other Characteristics Intrinsic Properties Does Human Just Which Them Certain Organism Humans
Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place. Noam Chomsky
Government First Must Invasion Troops Withdrawal First Place American American Government Place Unilateral Vietnam Act American Troops
Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece. Noam Chomsky
Example Pay Society Elsewhere Extreme States Ways Has-Been Wealthy Pretty True For Example Been Greece Dysfunctional Taxes Barely Many Including United United States Extent
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. Noam Chomsky
Overcome Consequences State Project Hideous Has-Been Brutal Results Pernicious Been Exist Formation Should Aspects Many
The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid. Noam Chomsky
Peace Paranoid Only Exists Movement Fantasies Peace Movement
There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments. Noam Chomsky
Work People Physics Internet Think Spent Hour Like Know Schools Around Lot Departments Graduate Happen Reason Who
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them. Noam Chomsky
You Science Political Society States Topics Correlation Easy See Pretty Main Study Attitudes Academic Policy Political Science Accurate Polls Them Reasonably Serious Compare United United States
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
Try Internet Become Control Corporate Direct Part Massive Efforts Owners Technique
When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. Noam Chomsky
Secular Way Like Yang Turned Figures Stanford University
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands. Noam Chomsky
War Willingness Demands Accept Avoided Kennedy
Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous. Noam Chomsky
Together Consequences Later Horrendous Could Sooner Sooner Or Later Come Terror Going
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. Noam Chomsky
Nature Slow Realistic Human Nature Too Scale Evolutionary Totally Affect Fixed Any Human Processes Much
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that. Noam Chomsky
Good Language Component About Know Fairly Deal Amenable Human Happens Which Capacity Good Deal Cognitive
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
War You Problem Half Think States Destroyed Pretty Fact Go In Fact Production Serious United United States Pharmaceutical
In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. Noam Chomsky
Students Cheap Vulnerable Labor Graduate Graduate Students Means Universities
I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. Noam Chomsky
Independent Possibility See Allowing Almost Iraq Sovereign Any Inconceivable Britain
I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR. Noam Chomsky
News Easily Would More Than NPR Appear Fox Fox News
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside. Noam Chomsky
Army Conservative Unofficial 1990s More Devastating Category Countryside Kosovo Kurdish Falls Kurds Very Than Repression Estimates Turkish Capital Flight Peaked Million Early Early 1990s
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works. Noam Chomsky
Government Time Day You People World Back Way Insights Archives Week Factory Hours Read Go May Newspapers Working Works
The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects. Noam Chomsky
Money Plant Responsibility Indeed Those Borrow Borrowed Borrowing Idea Mass Falls Effects Often Gained Lend Little Workers Who Old-Fashioned Old-Fashioned Idea Assembly Population Suffered
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. Noam Chomsky
History Survival Deficit Threaten Only Institutions Material Perpetuate Cultural Human Repressive Stages Justification Produce Certain Even
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world. Noam Chomsky
Government World Every Other Say Kinds Puts Like Category Israel Same Which Them Things
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