1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else in the face, and let your grandchildren pay for it. That simple principle predicts almost everything that’s happening.

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they’re becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

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.

I didn’t pay my taxes for years.

If you’re in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.

In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant – everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what’s left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression – thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.