Explore Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

NATO's essentially run by the United States.

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

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 the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

All through Latin America, there's sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it's qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.