Noam Chomsky Quotes

The future is in our hands!

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

All I can do is to try and make the future better.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.

As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

God's most precious commodity—hope .... When a child has no hope a nation has no future.

It is not enough to look backwards with pride, justified as that pride may be. We must look forward with hope and confidence, too.

It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness.

We tried to convince people that we didn’t have to be last in everything.

Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

I don't like people being negative, whining, or moaning. If you're in a situation you're not in control of, just change.

Hope does not fall from the sky. We create hope ourselves.

I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don't lose hope.