1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

In fact, it’s doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it. All of these operations, they are terror operations.

It’s only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it’s not terrorism.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift.

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent – and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you’re not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else’s mind.

To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to ‘moral equivalence,’ or ‘political correctness,’ or ‘the error of of atheism,’ or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.

Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white South Africans that the end is coming. They can’t just hope to subdue the continent on racist grounds.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars – they would think the country has gone insane.