Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our brain.' Otherwise I would have been genetically programmed to speak (some variety of) English.
Noam ChomskyThere's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
Noam ChomskyThere have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents, sometimes [as a result of] highly adventurist acts of political leaders.
Noam ChomskyPeople are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.
Noam Chomsky