Quotes By Noam Chomsky

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

I don't like the intellectual label.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.

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

States are not moral agents.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.