KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Noam Chomsky Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Showing 181-190 of 453 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

~Noam Chomsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

~Noam Chomsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

~Noam Chomsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

~Noam Chomsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

~Noam Chomsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

~Noam Chomsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Governments don't control people like they used to.

~Noam Chomsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Noam Chomsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

~Noam Chomsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

~Noam Chomsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: December 7th, 1928

Links

Find Noam Chomsky on Amazon

Related Authors

Kevin Bales
James Brady
H. Rap Brown
Cesar Chavez
Alfred Hermann Fried
Florence Kelley
Jack Kevorkian
Giuseppe Mazzini
Scott Nearing
Frances E. Willard

Popular Authors

Douglas Adams Richard Branson Jimmy Fallon Jean Piaget Joan Rivers Adam Smith Will Smith Sun Tzu

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1940 - Frank Zappa

1118 - Thomas Becket

1734 - Paul Revere

1795 - Leopold Von Ranke

1804 - Benjamin Disraeli

1815 - Thomas Couture

1849 - James Lane Allen

1860 - Henrietta Szold

1891 - John William Mccormack

1892 - Rebecca West

Birthdays on December 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Age Great Happiness Leadership Patience Relationship Saint Patrick's Day Success