Quotes About Noam Chomsky

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

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

While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it in favor of Stalinist/Fascist standards.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.