Community Quotes by Noam Chomsky

“Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society, and by explicit judgments of value concerning the character of…

— Noam Chomsky

I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community.

— Noam Chomsky

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

— Noam Chomsky

“Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are…

— 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

People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.

— Noam Chomsky

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is…

— Noam Chomsky

It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through…

— Noam Chomsky

Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities…

— Noam Chomsky

The actual consequences of Plan Colombia are to devastate peasant communities, which have been driven to drug production. These peasants have no…

— Noam Chomsky

Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society…

— 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

The local grocery store was a gathering, a community place. You knew the owner, if you didn't have any money they'd let…

— Noam Chomsky

There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a…

— Noam Chomsky

To pay attention to the actual core of the movement - that would be pretty hard. Can you concentrate for example on…

— Noam Chomsky

That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a…

— Noam Chomsky

Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't feel that there is anything deep in the political culture that prevents "educating the masses." I'm old enough to recall…

— 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

Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to…

— Noam Chomsky

The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer…

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control…

— Noam Chomsky

Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an…

— Noam Chomsky

I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of…

— Noam Chomsky

One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.

— Noam Chomsky

Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was…

— Noam Chomsky

“Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged…

— Noam Chomsky

The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created…

— Noam Chomsky

To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore…

— 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

In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical…

— Noam Chomsky

Stakeholders - meaning workers and community - the CEO could just as well be responsible to them. This presupposes there ought to…

— Noam Chomsky

Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under…

— Noam Chomsky

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and…

— Noam Chomsky

There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically…

— Noam Chomsky

Because the 1979 strike against U.S. Steel in Youngstown, Ohio was an occupation - and actually, that's a model that really should…

— Noam Chomsky

Major efforts have to be undertaken to bring the general public to understand the real reasons for their plight, and the possibilities…

— Noam Chomsky

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically…

— Noam Chomsky

I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life.…

— Noam Chomsky

There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For…

— Noam Chomsky