1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Legalizing marijuana would make a lot of sense, I don’t think there’s a single case of marijuana overdose on record and tens of millions of users. It’s much less dangerous than alcohol, for example.

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category – except for the category of familiarity.

There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.

An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.” The.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That’s never been impossible and never been easy.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

Don’t be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.