Life Quotes by Noam Chomsky

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

— Noam Chomsky

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

— Noam Chomsky

When I was growing up in the 1930s and '40s anti-Semitism was rampant. It wasn't like Nazi Germany but it was pretty…

— Noam Chomsky

To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.

— Noam Chomsky

Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

— Noam Chomsky

The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening…

— Noam Chomsky

A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there…

— Noam Chomsky

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to…

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When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his…

— Noam Chomsky

“The culture and ideology fostered in this globalization process relate largely to “lifestyle” themes and goods and their acquisition; and they tend…

— Noam Chomsky

For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could…

— Noam Chomsky

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may…

— Noam Chomsky

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about…

— Noam Chomsky

Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative…

— Noam Chomsky

There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing…

— Noam Chomsky

Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become…

— Noam Chomsky

The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every…

— Noam Chomsky

What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the…

— Noam Chomsky

Student debt is structured to be a burden for life. The indebted cannot declare bankruptcy, unlike Donald Trump. Current student debt is…

— 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

France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even…

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“At the deepest level, the media contribute to the sense that the government is the enemy, and they suppress the sources of…

— Noam Chomsky

“Sometimes when I'm having a boring interview on the telephone, and I'm trying to think about something else because the questions are…

— Noam Chomsky

“You can find things in the traditional religions which are very benign and decent and wonderful and so on, but I mean,…

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“Sure, but having jobs doesn't require destroying the environment which makes life possible. I mean, if you have participatory social planning, and…

— Noam Chomsky

“Well, I think people should be able to live in a society where they can exercise these kinds of internal drives and…

— Noam Chomsky

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from…

— Noam Chomsky

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life,…

— Noam Chomsky

An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact…

— 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

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do…

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“[...] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction…

— Noam Chomsky

I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or…

— Noam Chomsky

“He did not foresee that in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and…

— Noam Chomsky

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your…

— Noam Chomsky

French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.…

— Noam Chomsky

As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into…

— Noam Chomsky

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some…

— Noam Chomsky

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest…

— Noam Chomsky

The current period of regression is registering some success in "producing people" who are subordinated to external power, diverted to such "superficial…

— Noam Chomsky