1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

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

In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations of exploitation. Much of this was initiated by Charlie Kernaghan of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights...

If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned.

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.