All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans. Amusing
- No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government… Describe
- You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables. Inspirational
- The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction… All
- The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political… Attention
- 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