--- title: "13 1930s Quotes By Noam Chomsky" description: "13 1930s quotes by Noam Chomsky. Plus more from Noam Chomsky and more 1930s sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/noam-chomsky-42_anticipate_in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-c_2206484.jpg" --- > [In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-could-anticipate-that-their/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/noam-chomsky-42_anticipate_in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-c_2206484.jpg) > [ They \[unions\] used straight Marxist rhetoric \[in 1930s\] - just the values were changed. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/they-unions-used-straight-marxist-rhetoric-in-1930s-just-the-values/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_they-unions-used-straight-marxist-rhetor_2354796.jpg) > [Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/whatever-the-reasons-may-be-i-was-very-much-affected-by-events-of-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a43/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_whatever-the-reasons-may-be-i-was-very-m_91124.jpg) > [When I was growing up in the 1930s and '40s anti-Semitism was rampant. It wasn't like Nazi Germany but it was pretty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/when-i-was-growing-up-in-the-1930s-and-40s-anti-semitism-was-rampant/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_when-i-was-growing-up-in-the-1930s-and-4_844895.jpg) > [It was reported in the left-wing press in the late 1930s that the Texas Company (Texaco), headed by the Nazi sympathizer Torkild…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/it-was-reported-in-the-left-wing-press-in-the-late-1930s-that-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41e/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_it-was-reported-in-the-left-wing-press-i_780377.jpg) > [I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-had-two-spinster-aunts-who-were-seamstresses-and-of-course/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b8/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_i-had-two-spinster-aunts-who-were-seamst_1590446.jpg) > [The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-labor-movement-had-been-pretty-much-killed-in-the-1920s-almost/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b0/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_the-labor-movement-had-been-pretty-much_406604.jpg) > [For example, when my father was able to buy a secondhand car in the late 1930s, and he took us to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/for-example-when-my-father-was-able-to-buy-a-secondhand-car-in-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/696/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_for-example-when-my-father-was-able-to-b_1984407.jpg) > [All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/all-you-have-to-do-is-read-the-business-literature-in-the-1930s-they/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/176/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_all-you-have-to-do-is-read-the-business_2964855.jpg) > [Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/labor-has-been-severely-undermined-but-that-s-happened-before-in-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e28/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_labor-has-been-severely-undermined-but-t_2276468.jpg) > [The human species is now at a point where it has to make choices that are going to determine whether decent survival…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-human-species-is-now-at-a-point-where-it-has-to-make-choices-that/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/195/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_the-human-species-is-now-at-a-point-wher_1295138.jpg) > [The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-fourteenth-amendment-after-the-civil-war-in-principle-brought/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc1/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_the-fourteenth-amendment-after-the-civil_2102655.jpg) > [Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/actually-the-phrase-national-security-is-barely-used-until-the-1930s/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/480/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_actually-the-phrase-national-security-is_2886691.jpg) ## More by Noam Chomsky > [The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-costs-of-the-bush-obama-wars-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-are-now/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/if-you-believe-in-democracy-why-shouldn-t-you-know-what-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/it-s-a-shameful-moment-for-u-s-media-when-it-insists-on-being/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-are-questions-as-to-whether-it-should-even-exist-who-should/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/governments-regard-their-own-citizens-as-their-main-enemy-and-they/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-don-t-join-the-new-atheists-so-for-example-i-wouldn-t-have-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-first-thing-you-ought-to-do-is-verify-what-i-present-just-because/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [ I wrote an article about the marine landing \[in Haiti\] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-wrote-an-article-about-the-marine-landing-in-haiti-right-away-but/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/american-society-is-now-remarkably-atomized-political-organizations/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/discovery-is-the-ability-to-be-puzzled-by-simple-things-noam-chomsky/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-s-an-interesting-book-about-that-called-the-third-reich-and-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/this-is-class-war-on-an-international-scale-and-power-is-in-the-hands/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-are-big-extremely-irrational-parts-of-the-society-and-they-have/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-s-plenty-to-criticize-about-the-mass-media-but-they-are-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-50-000-korean-mercenaries-we-had-in-vietnam-were-professional/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1930s/noam-chomsky/#itemlist", "name": "13 1930s Quotes By Noam Chomsky", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noam Chomsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-could-anticipate-that-their/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/noam-chomsky-42_anticipate_in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-c_2206484.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/noam-chomsky-42_anticipate_in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-c_2206484.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/noam-chomsky-42_anticipate_in-the-1930s-unemployed-working-people-c_2206484.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.” — Noam Chomsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noam Chomsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/they-unions-used-straight-marxist-rhetoric-in-1930s-just-the-values/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_they-unions-used-straight-marxist-rhetor_2354796.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_they-unions-used-straight-marxist-rhetor_2354796.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_they-unions-used-straight-marxist-rhetor_2354796.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.” — Noam Chomsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noam Chomsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/whatever-the-reasons-may-be-i-was-very-much-affected-by-events-of-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a43/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_whatever-the-reasons-may-be-i-was-very-m_91124.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a43/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_whatever-the-reasons-may-be-i-was-very-m_91124.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a43/noam-chomsky-42_1930s_whatever-the-reasons-may-be-i-was-very-m_91124.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for…” — Noam Chomsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When I was growing up in the 1930s and '40s anti-Semitism was rampant. 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