Enough Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky brings his analytical rigor to the question of sufficiency. Across twenty‑five statements he bridges language, power, and ethics, showing how societies negotiate the balance between need and excess.
![“[With] military threats, you can see them actually, you can imagine it. People don't think about it enough. But if you think about it for a minute, you can see that a nuclear attack could be the end of everything.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dbf/noam-chomsky-42_ends_with-military-threats-you-can-see-them-a_2839113.jpg)
![“Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task that [Edward] Said describes, surely an important one.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/220/noam-chomsky-42_enough_those-lucky-enough-to-qualify-as-intelle_2561405.jpg)
![“CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has so sharply escalated in this country in contrast to Europe. (They're similar societies and it's bad enough there, but here we're in the stratosphere. ] There's no…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e5a/noam-chomsky-42_boards_ceos-pretty-much-pick-the-boards-that-gi_2936811.jpg)
![“There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi Germany. [Adolf] Hitler was appealing to groups with similar grievances, and giving them crazy answers, but at least they were answers; these groups weren't getting…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/081/noam-chomsky-42_analog_there-are-historical-analogs-which-are-n_19392.jpg)
![“[Isaiah] Berlin's observation is accurate enough, and applies at home as well, and even more harshly for the reasons already mentioned: the apparatchiks and commissars could at least plead fear in extenuation.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af5/noam-chomsky-42_accurate_isaiah-berlin-s-observation-is-accurate_402358.jpg)
![“[Mikhail] Gorbachev complained. He was told look, there's nothing on paper. People didn't actually say it but the implication was look, if you are dumb enough to take faith in a gentleman's agreement with us, that's your problem. NATO expanded to East Germany.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/860/noam-chomsky-42_agreement_mikhail-gorbachev-complained-he-was-told_2212618.jpg)
![“The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean, we are the ones that ought to be organizing them, not Rush Limbaugh. There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3db/noam-chomsky-42_analog_the-reaction-we-should-be-having-to-rich_3191465.jpg)
![“I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc5/noam-chomsky-42_articles_i-wrote-an-article-about-the-marine-land_13341.jpg)
