1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what’s happening to African American communities. For example wealth, wealth in African American communities is almost zero. The history is striking.

La libertad, cuando no hay oportunidades, es un regalo envenenado; y negarse a proporcionar estas oportunidades es un acto criminal.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let’s see it.

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place.

If the principle is, “Let’s not get lethal substances out to the public”, the first one you’d go after is tobacco. The next one you’d go after is alcohol. Way down the list you’d get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you’d get to marijuana.

Workers aren’t free to move, labor can’t move, but capital can.

Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.