Social Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

— Noam Chomsky

I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.

— 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

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor…

— Noam Chomsky

My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called…

— Noam Chomsky

My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.

— Noam Chomsky

Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status…

— Noam Chomsky

In fact, some leaders come right out and say it. Mario Draghi the president of the European Central Bank had an interview…

— Noam Chomsky

The goal is a society in which the basic social unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door…

— Noam Chomsky

I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the…

— Noam Chomsky

Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory…

— Noam Chomsky

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is…

— Noam Chomsky

Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the…

— Noam Chomsky

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes…

— Noam Chomsky

What is failure for some is success for others. It depends on where they stand in the struggles over "democratic governance" and…

— Noam Chomsky

It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the…

— Noam Chomsky

There is a narrow class of uses of language where you intend to communicate. Communication refers to an effort to get people…

— Noam Chomsky

But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to…

— 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

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

In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe...…

— 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

I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done…

— Noam Chomsky

So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of…

— Noam Chomsky

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of…

— Noam Chomsky

Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for…

— Noam Chomsky

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive…

— 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

[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and…

— Noam Chomsky

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of…

— Noam Chomsky

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't use the social media but I can see the effects in my own correspondence. I get a ton of correspondence.…

— Noam Chomsky

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by…

— Noam Chomsky

Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the…

— 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

The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for…

— Noam Chomsky

The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes…

— Noam Chomsky

There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population…

— Noam Chomsky

The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for…

— Noam Chomsky

About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and…

— Noam Chomsky