Sometimes Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Sometimes I lose my temper.

— Noam Chomsky

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

— Noam Chomsky

I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community.

— 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

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

— Noam Chomsky

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is…

— Noam Chomsky

We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope…

— Noam Chomsky

The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but…

— Noam Chomsky

In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in…

— Noam Chomsky

In fact, when drugs are legalized, use sometimes goes down, it's been claimed. Part of the reason is that teenage kids use…

— Noam Chomsky

America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,…

— Noam Chomsky

There have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents,…

— Noam Chomsky

More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive…

— Noam Chomsky

The idea that Hezbollah is acting as an agent of Iran is very dubious. It's not accepted by specialists on Iran or…

— Noam Chomsky

I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing…

— Noam Chomsky

Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions…

— Noam Chomsky

I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features…

— Noam Chomsky

I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on…

— Noam Chomsky

Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind…

— Noam Chomsky

The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral…

— Noam Chomsky

Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that…

— Noam Chomsky

The United States is alone among all the countries in that it does not permit US military forces to be under any…

— 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