Noam Chomsky Quotes

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.

There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.