History Quotes by Noam Chomsky

What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.

— Noam Chomsky

The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.

— Noam Chomsky

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

— Noam Chomsky

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

— Noam Chomsky

“These facts have been completely removed from history. One has to practically scream them from the rooftops.”

— Noam Chomsky

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

— Noam Chomsky

The "end of history" has been proclaimed many times, always falsely.

— Noam Chomsky

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

— Noam Chomsky

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons…

— Noam Chomsky

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what…

— Noam Chomsky

History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

— Noam Chomsky

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes…

— Noam Chomsky

I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country…

— Noam Chomsky

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese,…

— Noam Chomsky

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm sorry to say it has some historical analogs. It's kind of reminiscent of what happened in Germany in the late Weimar…

— Noam Chomsky

The real invasion of South Vietnam which was directed largely against the rural society began directly in 1962 after many years of…

— Noam Chomsky

To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,'…

— Noam Chomsky

The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive,…

— Noam Chomsky

So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of…

— Noam Chomsky

Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)…

— Noam Chomsky

There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of…

— Noam Chomsky

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they…

— Noam Chomsky

“Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of…

— Noam Chomsky

“There was very conscious discussion of the need to create wants—and in fact, extensive efforts were then undertaken to do exactly what…

— Noam Chomsky

Through much of its history, the US did not have high inequality as compared with Europe. Less so, in fact. That began…

— Noam Chomsky

Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have…

— Noam Chomsky

[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular…

— Noam Chomsky

“James Madison framed the constitutional order so that power would be in the hands of the Senate, which represents “the wealth of…

— Noam Chomsky

“The British succeeded. India deindustrialized, it ruralized. As the industrial revolution spread in England, India was turning into a poor, ruralized and…

— Noam Chomsky

“The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of…

— Noam Chomsky

“In fact, a lot of life is hopeless today, even for middle-class kids. I mean, for the first time in I think…

— Noam Chomsky

“To begin with, we have to be more clear about what we mean by patriotic feelings. For a time when I was…

— Noam Chomsky

“Incidentally, there's a little historical footnote here, if you're interested. The oil company that was authorized by the Treasury Department under Bush…

— Noam Chomsky

“Well, in my view what would ultimately be necessary would be a breakdown of the nation-state system―because I think that's not a…

— Noam Chomsky

“Eight months [after 9/11], after the most intensive international investigation in history, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed the…

— Noam Chomsky

“You hear it in every political speech, “vote for me, we’ll get the dream back.” They all reiterate it in similar words—you…

— Noam Chomsky

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

— Noam Chomsky

Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history…

— Noam Chomsky

Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't…

— Noam Chomsky