--- title: "9 Could Quotes By Noam Chomsky" description: "9 Could quotes by Noam Chomsky. Plus more from Noam Chomsky and more Could sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/noam-chomsky-42_anticipate_in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-c_2206484.jpg" --- > [In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-could-anticipate-that-their/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/noam-chomsky-42_anticipate_in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-c_2206484.jpg) > [If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/if-you-could-take-a-subway-from-the-suburbs-in-boston-where-i-live-to/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f2/noam-chomsky-42_boston_if-you-could-take-a-subway-from-the-subu_1725642.jpg) > [I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-have-trouble-reading-modern-hebrew-in-the-1950s-i-could-read/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a09/noam-chomsky-42_anything_i-have-trouble-reading-modern-hebrew-in_2535469.jpg) > [There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-is-every-likelihood-that-the-jihadi-movement-much-of-it-highly/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/150/noam-chomsky-42_after_there-is-every-likelihood-that-the-jihad_538548.jpg) > [You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/you-could-imagine-a-language-exactly-like-english-except-it-doesn-t/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d1/noam-chomsky-42_about_you-could-imagine-a-language-exactly-lik_419886.jpg) > [It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/it-could-be-and-it-has-been-argued-in-my-view-rather-plausibly-though/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec2/noam-chomsky-42_argued_it-could-be-and-it-has-been-argued-in-my_899334.jpg) > [In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/in-the-early-days-of-the-military-arpanet-my-daughter-was-studying-in/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdc/noam-chomsky-42_because_in-the-early-days-of-the-military-arpane_1204876.jpg) > [The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-united-states-was-seriously-defeated-in-iraq-by-iraqi-nationalism/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/noam-chomsky-42_could_the-united-states-was-seriously-defeated_2697365.jpg) > [Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/two-days-after-the-boston-marathon-bombings-there-was-a-drone-strike/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da2/noam-chomsky-42_after_two-days-after-the-boston-marathon-bombi_1242163.jpg) ## Other authors on Could ## More by Noam Chomsky > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-costs-of-the-bush-obama-wars-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-are-now/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/if-you-believe-in-democracy-why-shouldn-t-you-know-what-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/it-s-a-shameful-moment-for-u-s-media-when-it-insists-on-being/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-are-questions-as-to-whether-it-should-even-exist-who-should/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/governments-regard-their-own-citizens-as-their-main-enemy-and-they/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-don-t-join-the-new-atheists-so-for-example-i-wouldn-t-have-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-first-thing-you-ought-to-do-is-verify-what-i-present-just-because/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [ I wrote an article about the marine landing \[in Haiti\] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-wrote-an-article-about-the-marine-landing-in-haiti-right-away-but/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/american-society-is-now-remarkably-atomized-political-organizations/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/discovery-is-the-ability-to-be-puzzled-by-simple-things-noam-chomsky/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-s-an-interesting-book-about-that-called-the-third-reich-and-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/this-is-class-war-on-an-international-scale-and-power-is-in-the-hands/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-are-big-extremely-irrational-parts-of-the-society-and-they-have/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-s-plenty-to-criticize-about-the-mass-media-but-they-are-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-50-000-korean-mercenaries-we-had-in-vietnam-were-professional/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/could/noam-chomsky/#itemlist", "name": "9 Could Quotes By Noam Chomsky", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noam Chomsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-could-anticipate-that-their/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/noam-chomsky-42_anticipate_in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-c_2206484.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/noam-chomsky-42_anticipate_in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-c_2206484.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/noam-chomsky-42_anticipate_in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-c_2206484.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.” — Noam Chomsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. 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