All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to… All
- As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. Acting
- I don't want followers. Followers
- How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. Inspirational
- If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question… Challenge
- States are not moral agents. Agents
- As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state… Among
- We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least,… Bacteria
- I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had. Any
- Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. Affair
- Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. Influential
- Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous. Come Together
- Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against. America
- As a research tool, the internet is invaluable. Inspirational
- Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. Certain
- I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. Allowing
- In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category. America
- In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. Academic
- My proposal happens to be very mainstream. Happens
- Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. Catastrophe