Noam Chomsky Quotes

We have to understand how we would act if some other country did to us what we do to them.

If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.

Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.

There is no reason why we should not have peaceful relations with the world if we cease playing the role of international Meddlesome Mattie.

If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings? War would be a thing of the past.

I want to use the good name of my father George Bush to build a better relationship between the U.S. and China. There are so many misunderstandings and there is a lot to do.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'

It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the place that you come from. But that, in itself, is just a political view.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

I really think that most people around the world know how well-intended Americans are.

Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

I think well-read people - the world is open to them.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.