Noam Chomsky World Quotations

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

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.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'

[According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products were lettuce and pickles and the main energy resource of the world were in central Africa.

There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security.

So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy.

The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

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

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.

California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.

We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people.

I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.

In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on state coercion, though that's true too, but also in terms of individual relations. The United States comes closer to classlessness in terms of interpersonal relations than virtually any society.

The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.

The United States has done some very good things in the world, and that does not change the fact that the World Court was quite correct in condemning the United States as an international terrorist state.

In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it. All of these operations, they are terror operations.

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.