Noam Chomsky Quotes:
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
NOAM CHOMSKY
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
NOAM CHOMSKY
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
NOAM CHOMSKY
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
NOAM CHOMSKY
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
NOAM CHOMSKY
I like Gramsci. He’s an important person.
NOAM CHOMSKY
It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
NOAM CHOMSKY
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, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
NOAM CHOMSKY
There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
NOAM CHOMSKY
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
NOAM CHOMSKY
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
NOAM CHOMSKY
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
NOAM CHOMSKY