1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.

Small changes can magnifiy. The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.