Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.
Noam ChomskyIf Palestinian Authority refuse to join the US-run negotiations, their basis for support would collapse. They survive on donations essentially. Israel has made sure that it's not a productive economy.
Noam ChomskyIn my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.
Noam ChomskyAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam ChomskyA good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry to the country because he wrote on Kashmir. This is a reflection of fractures within society. Pakistan, too, has to focus on the Lashkar [Lashkar-i-Taiba] and other similar groups and work towards some sort of sensible compromise on Kashmir.
Noam Chomsky