All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions,… Confirmed
- Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe… Act
- People tend to rally around power. Around Power
- The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that… Acceptable
- State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson… Been
- It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism. Funny
- My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to… Academic
- We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named… Apache
- Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life. Half
- Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time. Anarchist
- It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars. Bear
- If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it. Funny
- There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable… Advocacy
- These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers. Call
- The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard… Alone
- When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game?… Any
- Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. Course
- If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in… Anti
- Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? Creative
- Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in… Despise
- For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These… All
- French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go… Absurdity
- The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't… Concern
- The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because… Controlled
- Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place First Place