Noam Chomsky Quotes

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.

Sometimes I lose my temper.