Explore Quotes by Noam Chomsky

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.

I have been - I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.

In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions.

Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

I haven't read Horowitz. I didn't used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don't read him today.

I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.

If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.