Accepting Quotes by Noam Chomsky

I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.

— Noam Chomsky

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.

— Noam Chomsky

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

— Noam Chomsky

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

— Noam Chomsky

People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to.

— Noam Chomsky

We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster.…

— Noam Chomsky

Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no…

— Noam Chomsky

Around 2008 and again in 2013 NATO officially offered the Ukraine the opportunity to join NATO. That's something no Russian government is…

— Noam Chomsky

Well, they really didn't have to worry, because the way power politics works, the World Court can't do anything. Look, there's one…

— Noam Chomsky

The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that…

— Noam Chomsky

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by…

— Noam Chomsky

In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to…

— Noam Chomsky

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't see how one can "believe in organized religion." What does it mean to believe in an organization? One can join…

— Noam Chomsky

To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state…

— Noam Chomsky

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by…

— Noam Chomsky

This crazy ban on the seven states, where we can't accept immigrants, almost every analyst points out the obvious: It just increases…

— Noam Chomsky

The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral…

— Noam Chomsky

Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention…

— Noam Chomsky

The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but…

— Noam Chomsky