Noam Chomsky Quotes


Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.


Citations

Chomsky, Noam. Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance. City Lights Books, 2012, p. 95.

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Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
  • Born: December 7, 1928
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Activist

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.