1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a 'third force,' independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

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

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

Governments are not representative.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

A lot of association on the internet is highly constructive. There are people interacting, interchanging ideas, making plans, coordinating activities; take any of the popular movements, a lot of the organization is through the internet. We want to have a demonstration or we want to have a meeting, its done through the internet. I think that's all to the good.