Time Quotes by Noam Chomsky

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

— Noam Chomsky

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.

— Noam Chomsky

What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.

— Noam Chomsky

The "end of history" has been proclaimed many times, always falsely.

— Noam Chomsky

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

— Noam Chomsky

I have been - I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.

— Noam Chomsky

“Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society, and by explicit judgments of value concerning the character of…

— 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

The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects…

— Noam Chomsky

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the…

— Noam Chomsky

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual…

— Noam Chomsky

In a moment of crisis, of which there are all too many, Russian military planners may conclude that lacking a deterrent, the…

— Noam Chomsky

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

— 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

It's very hard to look in the mirror. We all know this. It's much easier to have illusions about yourself. And in…

— Noam Chomsky

If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What…

— Noam Chomsky

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a…

— Noam Chomsky

To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at…

— Noam Chomsky

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age…

— Noam Chomsky

There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would…

— Noam Chomsky

Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or…

— Noam Chomsky

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to…

— Noam Chomsky

This would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East. The…

— Noam Chomsky

If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle…

— Noam Chomsky

There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in…

— Noam Chomsky

It's necessary to address the concerns and beliefs of those who are taken in by the fraud, or who don't recognize the…

— Noam Chomsky

“Over recent years, [there's been] a strong tendency to require assessment of children and teachers so that [teachers] have to teach to…

— Noam Chomsky

“To begin with, we have to be more clear about what we mean by patriotic feelings. For a time when I was…

— Noam Chomsky

“In the succeeding thirty-two years of U.S. guidance, not only has Guatemala gradually become a terrorist state rarely matched in the scale…

— Noam Chomsky

It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive…

— Noam Chomsky

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a…

— Noam Chomsky

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely…

— Noam Chomsky

“no form of politics is worth our time until it helps struggling people get what they need, sustainably and reliably. All the…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't have time, you know - I want to be able to get it [information] instantly on the internet and not…

— 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

Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for…

— Noam Chomsky

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years…

— Noam Chomsky

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and…

— Noam Chomsky

By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed…

— Noam Chomsky

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see…

— Noam Chomsky