Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.
Noam ChomskyIf the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group (and there seems to be no coherent alternative), then interaction must have been a later phenomenon.
Noam ChomskyPeople who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.
Noam ChomskyIsaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.
Noam ChomskyIn fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.
Noam ChomskySuppose that I see a hungry child in the street, and I am able to offer the child some food. Am I morally culpable if I refuse to do so? Am I morally culpable if I choose not to do what I easily can about the fact that 1000 children die every hour from easily preventable disease, according to UNICEF? Or the fact that the government of my own "free and open society" is engaged in monstrous crimes that can easily be mitigated or terminated? Is it even possible to debate these questions?
Noam Chomsky