Way Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

— Noam Chomsky

The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it.

— Noam Chomsky

Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

— Noam Chomsky

South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs.

— Noam Chomsky

What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.

— Noam Chomsky

Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.

— Noam Chomsky

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively…

— Noam Chomsky

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

— Noam Chomsky

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore,…

— 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

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

— Noam Chomsky

I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

— Noam Chomsky

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.

— Noam Chomsky

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

— Noam Chomsky

From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over…

— Noam Chomsky

When I was a boy, we were the only Jewish family in a terribly anti-Semitic neighborhood. Those streets weren't any fun for…

— 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

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

— Noam Chomsky

There is undoubtedly much to learn about the social uses of language, for communication or for other purposes. But at present there…

— Noam Chomsky

I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways.…

— Noam Chomsky

When people say do you believe in God? what do they mean by it? Do I believe in some spiritual force in…

— Noam Chomsky

Every predecessor has used mercenaries, often drawn from the country that they're attacking like England ran India with Indian mercenaries. You take…

— Noam Chomsky

Language would have evolved first as an internal object, a kind of "language of thought" (LOT), with externalisation (hence communication) an ancillary…

— Noam Chomsky

Let's take Adam Smith, the patron-saint of capitalism, what did he think? He thought the main human instinct was sympathy. In fact,…

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people…

— Noam Chomsky

When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins…

— 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

Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There…

— Noam Chomsky

Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are…

— Noam Chomsky

There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with…

— 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

People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.

— Noam Chomsky

In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.

— Noam Chomsky

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared…

— Noam Chomsky

NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

— Noam Chomsky

Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made.

— Noam Chomsky

What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking…

— Noam Chomsky

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's…

— 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