Millions of people are getting the vote, and we have to educate them to keep them from our throats. In other words, we have to train them in obedience and servility, so they're not going to think through the way the world works and come after our throats.
Noam ChomskyIf you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
Noam ChomskyWhen [ Paul Johnson] got to me he was in trouble, because I'm an old-fashioned conservative: married when I was 21, stayed married, 3 kids, live in the suburbs, no scandals, so nothing to write about. So what he did is concoct one of the nuttiest claims I've ever seen.
Noam ChomskyYou have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.
Noam ChomskyIf we understood, as we do not, the physical bases for intellectual structures, I have little doubt that we would find structures in the brain for social interactions, or language, or analysis of personality - a whole variety of systems developed on the basis of a specific biological endowment.
Noam Chomsky