Able Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on…

— Noam Chomsky

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!

— Noam Chomsky

I don't have time, you know - I want to be able to get it [information] instantly on the internet and not…

— Noam Chomsky

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on…

— Noam Chomsky

Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent…

— Noam Chomsky

There's a radical insurgency, which is a large part of the Republican base, which is willing to do anything, destroy the country,…

— Noam Chomsky

We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And…

— Noam Chomsky

People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the…

— Noam Chomsky

Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the…

— Noam Chomsky

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few…

— Noam Chomsky

Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing…

— Noam Chomsky

Suppose that I see a hungry child in the street, and I am able to offer the child some food. Am I…

— Noam Chomsky

Those who wish to change the world should have the best possible understanding of the world, including what is revealed by the…

— Noam Chomsky

To construct a scientific theory from the data and to be able to recognize that it is a reasonable theory is possible…

— Noam Chomsky

[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing…

— Noam Chomsky

As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the…

— Noam Chomsky

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on…

— Noam Chomsky

...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't think there is any scientific evidence about the question of whether we think only in language or not. But introspection…

— Noam Chomsky

There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant…

— Noam Chomsky

For example, when my father was able to buy a secondhand car in the late 1930s, and he took us to the…

— Noam Chomsky

It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions…

— Noam Chomsky

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if…

— Noam Chomsky

In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility…

— Noam Chomsky

Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right…

— Noam Chomsky

France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even…

— Noam Chomsky

Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in…

— Noam Chomsky

If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business…

— Noam Chomsky

To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at…

— Noam Chomsky

Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations,…

— Noam Chomsky