Noam Chomsky Quotes
Source: Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
Source: Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1970s, Government in the Future, 1970, p. 140.
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Zeit Campus;
Quotes 2010s, 2011
Context: [ZEIT Campus: You often say you are an anarchist. What do you mean by that? ] Chomsky: Students should challenge authorities and join a long anarchist tradition. [ZEIT Campus: “Challenge authorities” – a liberal or a moderate leftist could accept that invitation. ] Chomsky: As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t matter to me. [ZEIT Campus: Who or what must challenge today’s student generation? ] Chomsky: This world is full of suffering, distress, violence and catastrophes. Students must decide: does something concern you or not? I say: look around, analyze the problems, ask yourself what you can do and set out on the work!
“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a "war against terrorism."”
9-11, 2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20061015103427/http://indymedia.org.nz/usermedia/application/2/9-11.pdf
Quotes 2000s, 2001
First published in Truthout http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38360-trump-in-the-white-house-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky on 14 November 2016. Then published in the book Optimism over Despair in 2017, pages 121-122 (ISBN 9780241981979).
Quotes 2010s, 2016
Noam Chomsky, letter dated June 13, 1983. Published in: " The reasons for my concern: Response to Celia Jakubowicz http://www.chomsky.info/letters/19830613.htm," in C. P. Otero (ed.), Language and Politics, Black Rose, 1988, pp. 369-72.
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s
Quotes 2000s, 2002, Talk at the University of Houston, 2002
Quotes 2000s, 2004, Interview by Bill Maher, 2004
Z Magazine, May 1991 http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/z9105-what-we-say.html.
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994
" Anarchism : Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Dobereiner, John Hess, Doug Richardson & Tom Woodhull http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/197401--.htm" in: C. P. Otero (ed.), Language and Politics, Black Rose, 1988, pp. 166-196, January, 1974.
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1970s
Responding to the question, "what did the United States have to gain by intervening in Somalia?", regarding Operation Provide Relief/Operation Restore Hope/Battle of Mogadishu.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999, Sovereignty and World Order, 1999
Interview by Michael Shank in Foreign Policy In Focus, February 16, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070227224657/https://fpif.org/fpiftxt/3999
Quotes 2000s, 2007-09
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1960s, American Power and the New Mandarins, 1969
Interview by Burton Levine in Shmate: A Journal of Progressive Jewish Thought, May 1988 http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/198805--.htm.
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s
'Resonant and unwavering', Interview with Stuart Alan Becker, Bangkok Post http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20080714.htm.
Quotes 2000s, 2007-09
"The Unmentionable Five-Letter Word" in How the World Works, p. 120
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994, The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many, 1993
"How the Nazis Won the War" in How the World Works, p. 193
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994, Secrets, Lies and Democracy, 1994
Quotes 2000s, 2001, The New War Against Terror, 2001
Talk titled "The Current Crisis in the Middle East" at MIT, September 21, 2006 http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/403/
Quotes 2000s, 2006
Talk at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, March 22, 2005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEvIDiVheys.
Quotes 2000s, 2005
Quotes 2000s, 2005, Interview by Doug Henwood, 2004
"How the Nazis Won the War" in How the World Works, p. 192
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994, Secrets, Lies and Democracy, 1994
"Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death" http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/, Guernica, 6 May 2011.
Quotes 2010s, 2011
except for the weak
Z Magazine, February 1995 http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199505--.htm.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999, Z Magazine, July 1995
Year 501, 1993 http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/year/year-c10-s07.html.
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994
Quotes 2000s, 2001, The New War Against Terror, 2001
Source: Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1970s, Government in the Future, 1970, p. 143.
Language and Politics (1988) p. 775
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s
KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 5, 2003 http://www.freespeech.org/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=418
Quotes 2000s, 2003
Interview by Svetlana Vukovic & Svetlana Lukic on Radio B92, Belgrade, Serbia, September 19, 2001 http://www.b92.net/intervju/eng/2001/0919-chomsky.phtml.
Quotes 2000s, 2001
“The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.”
Quotes 2000s, 2004, Interview by Bill Maher, 2004
Interview by Michael Powell in the Washington Post, May 5, 2002 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/05/05/an-eminence-with-no-shades-of-gray/7fbaf1b5-ce87-45e3-a84f-604c61bb378e/?utm_term=.e1d833548377
Quotes 2000s, 2002
Interview in Cardiff, Wales, UK on March 11, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93W8II_R75Y
Quotes 2010s, 2011
"Creative aspect of language use"
Quotes 2000s, 2007-09, (3rd ed., 2009)
Talk titled "Free Market Fantasies" at Harvard University, April 13, 1996 https://chomsky.info/19960413/.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999
Chomsky and Herman (1979), The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, p. 22.
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1970s
" Watergate: A Skeptical View http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19730920.htm," New York Review of Books, September 20, 1973.
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1970s
"Acquisition and use of language"
Quotes 2000s, 2007-09, (3rd ed., 2009)
“There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.”
KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 5, 2003 (context: João Goulart) http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=299
Quotes 2000s, 2003