Noam Chomsky Quotes on Justice
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, political philosopher, and one of the most cited intellectuals alive. This page collects quotes attributed to Noam Chomsky on the topic of justice, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“"Tough love" is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.”
1995–1999 | Powers and Prospects , 1996, p.137 -
“Lenin was a right-wing deviation of the socialist movement and he was so regarded...by the mainstream Marxists... Bolshevism was a right-wing deviation.”
1980s | Speech on “Lenin, Trotsky and Socialism and the Soviet Union”, (March 15, 1989) [1] -
“There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.”
2003 | KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder , April 5, 2003 (context: João Goulart ) [71] -
“”Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression”, preface to Robert Faurisson Mémoire en défense (October 11, 1980)”
1980s -
“Delivered at the First Annual Maryse Mikhail Lecture “No peace without justice; no justice without truth” The University of Toledo , March 4, 2001. [49]”
2001 -
“[The "liberal media"] love to be denounced from the right, and the right loves to denounce them, because that makes them look like courageous defenders of freedom and independence while, in fact, they are imposing all of the presuppositions of the propaganda system.”
1995–1999 | Interview by Ira Shorr, February 11, 1996 [25] -
“Talk titled "The Idea of Universality in Linguistics and Human Rights" at MIT, March 15, 2005 [84]”
2005