1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

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

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    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.

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    Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.

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    The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

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    NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

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    As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight

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    In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

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

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