1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the ‘crimes against the peace’ for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

We’re human beings; we’re not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn’t think that that was what they were doing – nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That’s human nature.

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

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

You don’t get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

The media are a corporate monopoly. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn’t even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They’re marginalized and properly distracted. At least that’s the goal.