Knows Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will…

— Noam Chomsky

[Donald Trump] guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing.

— Noam Chomsky

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good…

— Noam Chomsky

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

— Noam Chomsky

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

— Noam Chomsky

I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.

— Noam Chomsky

You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones…

— Noam Chomsky

You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody…

— Noam Chomsky

What matters is the way we Americans think about ourselves. We think about ourselves as incapable of committing crimes. Everything we do,…

— Noam Chomsky

The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want…

— Noam Chomsky

When people know we are ready to use nuclear weapons, they're going to back off if we do something aggressive. So basically,…

— Noam Chomsky

A large part of the left is pro-Assad. In those circles, you can't criticize Assad, but you know he's a monstrous war…

— Noam Chomsky

You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount…

— Noam Chomsky

I still think, despite everything, that the US is very unlikely to attack Iran. It could be a huge catastrophe; nobody knows…

— 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

Suppose I try to say the US carries out terror, in fact it's one of the leading terrorist states in the world.…

— Noam Chomsky

We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still…

— Noam Chomsky

It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't even know if I ever knew - some sweatshop in Baltimore. I knew with my other relatives - some of…

— Noam Chomsky

Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about…

— Noam Chomsky

For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff…

— Noam Chomsky

Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents…

— Noam Chomsky

One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual…

— Noam Chomsky

I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't know what it means to say that 'the internet should have a voice in Washington'.

— Noam Chomsky

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

— Noam Chomsky

It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And…

— Noam Chomsky

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.

— Noam Chomsky

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes…

— Noam Chomsky

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion…

— Noam Chomsky

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

— Noam Chomsky

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

— Noam Chomsky

Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what…

— Noam Chomsky

When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.

— Noam Chomsky

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the…

— Noam Chomsky

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made…

— Noam Chomsky

We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in…

— Noam Chomsky

You've just got to get people organized and tell them the truth. There aren't any magic tricks to it. You know, sometimes…

— Noam Chomsky

Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed…

— Noam Chomsky

That's a large part of the source of the gun culture. You have to have a gun when you go into Starbucks,…

— Noam Chomsky