America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.
Noam ChomskyUG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.
Noam ChomskyAn effective regulatory system today would be one guided by a few basic premises that can be applied flexibly but also universally.
Noam ChomskyThe Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
Noam ChomskyAnarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities, so they should be associated with one another in free associations, and democracy of that kind should be the foundational elements of a more general free society.
Noam Chomsky