Noam Chomsky Quotes

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Each and every Dutchman has his own manner of thinking, his own manners and habits, usage and speech.

We all have our opinions; that's only human.

What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

If you think all men are created equal, you haven't seen Bo Diddley in the shower.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature's too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.

It takes all sorts (to make a world

I suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs. From our point of view they are more or less the same, from their point of view they are all radically different.

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

Everybody's a multifaceted, emotional, living being, I think. Sometimes it's fun to goof around, sometimes you've got to think about things, sometimes you've got to be strange, and then you've got to be jiggly. That's just what being a human's all about.

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.