All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. Ago
- Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own… Best
- Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice. Choice
- Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything. Any
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. Catastrophe
- The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised… Among
- The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. Computers
- There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control. Control
- Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. Americanism
- When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it… Britain
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Colorless
- I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. Accumulate
- The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven… Bible
- Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. Art
- Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. Analogue
- 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