All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- 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
- It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the process that is… Barriers
- Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky Ability
- It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions… Corporation
- If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its… Anybody
- Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.†A variant to keep in mind is that if… All
- People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction. Call
- ...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that… Answer
- Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt,… Acquire
- If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope. Assume
- Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators. Attitude