1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your own good, not the good of others and that's extremely harmful.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you.

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

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.

A lot of the letters that are coming in - a lot of them are queries or comments - are one sentence long.These are from Twitter. And if you look at the nature of those one sentence letters, most of the time it's something that came to somebody's mind - somebody walking down the street had a thought and sent it out. If they thought about it for two minutes they would not have sent it.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.

Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.