Noam Chomsky Quotes on Time
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 time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Annexing of the land in Crimea, I think, was a criminal act. But it has a history.”
2016 | Noam Chomsky, Al Jazeera ‘UpFront’ interview with host Mehdi Hasan on ISIL, Turkey and Ukraine, (Jan 23, 2016) -
“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] -
“[…] the evacuation of Phnom Penh , widely denounced at the time and since for its undoubted brutality, may actually have saved many lives.”
After the Cataclysm(1979) -
“In "Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics" by Paul Street [99] , 2008.”
2007–09 -
“In these tumultuous times, Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion is important, because a functioning democracy requires active citizen participation in setting social policy.”
Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion(2020) -
“If we try to keep a sense of balance, the exposures of the past several months are analogous to the discovery that the directors of Murder, Inc. were also cheating on their income tax. Reprehensible, to be sure, but hardly the main point.”
1970s | " Watergate: A Skeptical View ," New York Review of Books (September 20, 1973).