All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That’s… Alliances
- The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public. Certain
- Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate Agenda
- My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone… Atrocities
- You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of… Change
- In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce.… African
- The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel. Consolidate
- It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s… Air
- We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous. Adam
- A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized. Basic
- In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren,… Apathy
- The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind. Mind
- Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence. America
- The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on… Anniversary
- You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions. Action
- If you want to end terrorism stop participating in it. End
- How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally,… Agnostic
- Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and… Class
- Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate tobacco farms in… Americans
- 'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it - As soon… Change
- The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system. Atrocities
- Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility. Bandied
- You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence. Commentators
- What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine… Cities
- Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and domination… Anarchism