A fundamental element of human nature is the need for…

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

— Noam Chomsky

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

— John Cusack

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

— Jello Biafra

“even if Noam Chomsky were right about everything, the Islamic doctrines related to martyrdom, jihad, blasphemy, apostasy, the rights of women and homosexuals, etc.…

— Sam Harris

Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie…

— Douglas Coupland

As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we…

— Hugo Chavez

“My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly represented the "Serbian Socialist Party"…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Chomsky's writings are "classics" in Mark Twain's sense: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”

— Stephen Pinker

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two…

— Terry Eagleton

“Chomsky is like the teenager who first discovers that those in authority—his parent, his teacher—are not as all-knowing as they claim to be and…

— Jeffrey C. Isaac

“[A TV commercial] crossed my desk in 1986. It came with a press release boasting about an enormous production budget employed in service of…

— Bob Garfield

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

— Sidney Hook

“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors [...] I…

— Noam Chomsky

“I know how easy it is to sound like a corny version of Noam Chomsky when talking about something like this, but in a…

— Dito Montiel

“In the succeeding thirty-two years of U.S. guidance, not only has Guatemala gradually become a terrorist state rarely matched in the scale of systematic…

— Noam Chomsky