I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
-
-
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
NOAM CHOMSKY -
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
NOAM CHOMSKY






