1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it. What we say is that the child or foreigner has a 'partial knowledge of English' or is 'on his or her way' towards acquiring knowledge of English, and if they reach this goal, they will then know English.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.