Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The change between horse and buggy to automobile is a big change and there hasn't been a major change since. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“As Chomsky says, if you act like there is no possibility of change for the better, you guarantee that there will be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump has been very inconsistent on many things; on Twitter he's been all over the place, but some of it is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama eight years ago. You remember, of course, his… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are real possibilities of reaching many of the Trump voters: many of them in fact voted for Obama, believing his rhetoric… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“One choice is to assume the worst, and then you can be guaranteed that it'll happen. The other is to assume that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Over the last 25 years, the major popular movements that have had significant impact on the general society and have changed it,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Small changes can magnifiy. The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Since November 8, 2017 the United States is literally alone in the world in first of all refusing to join in efforts… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
![“[Donald] Trump has been very inconsistent on many things; on Twitter he's been all over the place, but some of it is very consistent. That is: Do nothing about climate change except make it worse. And he's not just speaking for himself, but for the whole Republican Party, the whole leadership…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e8/noam-chomsky-42_change_donald-trump-has-been-very-inconsistent_886141.jpg)
![“If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business community, the energy corporations and many others, to try to frighten the population into opposing it - claiming that if they have it, all sorts of terrible things will…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/209/noam-chomsky-42_able_if-climate-change-became-a-serious-propo_1999017.jpg)
![“One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential threats - the threats to the termination of the species basically and most other species - one of them, climate change, on that I think there's no basis for discussion.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/230/noam-chomsky-42_bases_one-of-the-dangers-that-donald-trump-pos_2755620.jpg)
