Noam Chomskyborn 1928If we don’t believe in free expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
Interview with John Pilger, The Late Show, BBC Television (25 November 1992)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)- Interview on The Late Show, BBC Television (25 November 1992)
- Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (2012), p. 83
- Debate with Bill Bennett on CNN, May 30, 2002
- In Tony Evans (ed.), Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal, 1997
- Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent, 1992
- “On Resistance”, The New York Review of Books, December 7, 1967.
It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state.
Foreword to John Duffett (ed.), Against the Crime of Silence: Proceedings of the International War Crimes Tribunal (1970), p. xxivMarket signals were clear: There’s no profit in preventing a future catastrophe.
Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism, April 1, 2020- “On Resistance”, The New York Review of Books, December 7, 1967.
