All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if… Autocratic
- I like the cold weather. It means you get work done. Cold
- The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences,… Ability
- The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. Corporations
- There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan. Affair
- So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies… Ahead
- Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important… Achieve
- Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it’s growth in a sense... Build
- The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's… Always Willing
- Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t… Almost Always
- There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit information, but it… Accord
- Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities,… Along
- Governments are not representative. Funny
- Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social… Association
- Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a… Build
- There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them Abuse
- You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy. Democracy
- 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. Agencies
- The best defense against democracy is to distract people. Best
- If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal. Actually Change
- That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. Angry
- If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship Control
- Labor # Unions are the leading force for # democratization and # progress . Democratization
- Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is… Anti
- On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns. Abortion