Noam Chomsky

If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it.

So, essentially, what President Trump is saying is, we’ll destroy your countries, slaughter you, impose brutal regimes, but if you try to get out, you’re not going to come here, because America is full.

We don’t use the term “working class” here because it’s a taboo term. You’re supposed to say “middle class,” because it helps diminish the understanding that there’s a class war going on.

It’s the first time in American history that a candidate [Sanders] probably could have won, if it hadn’t been for party managers who kept him out, with no funding from the corporate sector, and no funding from the wealthy, and no media support.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‘Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?

The U.S. war-so-called war against terror has been a smashing success. There was a small group up in the tribal areas of mostly Pakistan and Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, and we have succeeded in spreading it over the whole world.

When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.

Life is managed; it is not cured.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Be as creative as you like, as often as you like, because you can never run out!

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Now payback is a bad bitch and baby, I’m the baddest.

I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.