All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege. Accrues
- Nationalism has a way of oppressing others. Nationalism
- The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests. Conform
- If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces. Creatures
- I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors. Expected
- The U.N. charter bars the threat of force. Bars
- The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that. Beyond
- Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of… Arab
- Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue. Course
- I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system. Afiuni
- The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. American
- Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was… Affected
- When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.… Corporation
- Pakistan is not a unified country. Country
- Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. Able
- In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the… Arab
- Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very… Apprehended
- From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants… All
- In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent… Act
- In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting… Democracy