While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.
Noam ChomskyThis is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.
Noam ChomskyOne of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.
Noam ChomskyThe whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant.
Noam Chomsky[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them, not as their government. In a democracy it would be your government.
Noam ChomskySay the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years. Those are things that the public should have known about. In a democracy they should have known what leaders thinking and planning about major enterprises like the Vietnam war. It was kept secret from them.
Noam Chomsky