Noam Chomsky Net Worth
Noam Chomsky Net Worth is
$5 Million
Noam Chomsky Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political commentator and anarcho-syndicalist activist. Sometimes described as the "father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy. He has spent most... | Full Name | Noam Gottesman |
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Date Of Birth | December 7, 1928 |
| Place Of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Profession | Writer, Philosopher, Linguist, Author, Critic, Screenwriter, Cognitive scientist, Historian, Logician, Teacher |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (1951–1955) |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Spouse | Carol Chomsky (m. 1949–2008) |
| Children | Aviva Chomsky, Harry Chomsky, Diane Chomsky |
| Parents | William Chomsky, Elsie Simonofsky |
| Siblings | David Chomsky |
| Nicknames | Chomsky , Prof Noam Chomsky , Prof. Noam Chomsky , Avram Noam Chomsky , Dr. Noam Chomsky , father of modern linguistics , Nômu Chomusukî |
| Awards | Sydney Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada, Franklin Institute Awards, Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology |
| Movies | This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Zapatista, Noam Chomsky: Imperial Grand Strategy, Rush to War, Modern Slavery, Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War, Targeting Iran |
| Star Sign | Sagittarius |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | Education is a system of imposed ignorance. |
| 2 | [Commenting on Sarah Palin to the German newspaper "Der Spiegel"] This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars, they would think the country has gone insane. |
| 3 | The internet is an elite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call. |
| 4 | [from "Manufacturing Consent"] I mean the great act of genocide in the modern period is Pol Pot, 1975 through 1978--that atrocity--I think it would be hard to find any example of a comparable outrage and outpouring of fury and so on and so forth. |
| 5 | [from "Manufacturing Consent"] I signed a petition calling on the tribunal to defend his [Robert Faurisson's] civil rights. At that point the French press, which apparently has no conception of freedom of speech, concluded that since I had called for his civil rights, I was therefore defending his theses. |
| 6 | [from "Manufacturing Consent"] I don't mind the denunciations, frankly; I mind the lies . . . intellectuals are very good at lying. They're professionals at it. Villification is a wonderful technique. There's no way of responding. If somebody calls you an anti-Semite, what can you say: "I'm not an anti-Semite"? If somebody says you're a racist or a Nazi? You always lose. The person who throws the mud always wins, because there is no way of responding to those charges. |
| 7 | [from "Manufacturing Consent"] I do not think that the State ought to have the right to determine historical truths and to punish people who deviate from them. I'm not willing to give the State that right. I'm saying if you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. I mean, [Joseph Goebbels] was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was [Joseph Stalin]. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise you're not in favor of freedom of speech. |
| 8 | Going back years, I am absolutely certain that I've taken far more extreme postitions on people who deny the Holocaust than you have. For example, you go back to my earliest articles and you will find that I say that even to enter into the arena of debate on the question of whether the Nazis carried out such atrocities is already to lose one's humanity. So I don't even think you ought to discuss the issue if you want my opinion. But if anybody wants to refute Faurisson there's certainly no difficulty in doing so. |
| 9 | The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority. And so it remains. |
| 10 | For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of "brainwashing under freedom" to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments. |
| 11 | The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants, and aliens, the more you control all the people. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | At the age of ten, he wrote his first political article on the fight against fascism in Spain. |
| 2 | His 1957 work "Syntactic Structures" revolutionized the field of linguistics, fundamentally changing the current understanding of language and mind. |
| 3 | Joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1955 and in 1961 was appointed full professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (now the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy). From 1966 to 1976 he held the Ferrari P. Ward Professorship of Modern Languages and Linguistics, and in 1976 he was appointed Institute Professor. As of 2008, Chomsky has taught at MIT continuously for 53 years. |
| 4 | Excerpts from his speeches have appeared on the "B" side of the single "New World Order: War #1" by the band Bad Religion. |
| 5 | Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 132, pp. 75-85. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005. |
| 6 | Caused a major controversy when an article he'd written in defense of free speech was used as a preface for a book by Robert Faurisson, a French professor whose works have focused on his belief that the Holocaust was a hoax. Chomsky's support of Faurisson's right to freedom of speech, defense of the credibility of Faurrison's research and his repeated criticisms of Israel have led to accusations of anti-Semitism, which he denies, pointing out that he himself is Jewish. |
| 7 | Has written a number of books highly critical of the military-industrial complex and political corruption. |
| 8 | Libertarian socialist activist and Professor of Linguistics at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial Grand Strategy | 2006 | Video documentary | |
| Pirates and Emperors (or Size Does Matter) | 2004 | Short book |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banana Land: Blood, Bullets and Poison | 2014 | Documentary consultant |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow World | 2016 | Documentary special thanks | |
| Requiem for the American Dream | 2015 | Documentary very special thanks | |
| Behind the Freedom Curtain | 2013 | Documentary special thanks | |
| Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? | 2013 | Documentary thanks | |
| Greedy Lying Bastards | 2012 | Documentary thanks | |
| Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics | 2009 | Video documentary thanks | |
| Iran Is Not the Problem | 2008 | Documentary grateful thanks: advisor | |
| American Drug War: The Last White Hope | 2007 | Documentary very special thanks | |
| Lake of Fire | 2006 | Documentary thanks | |
| Field Day | 2004 | Short special thanks | |
| Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy | 2004 | Video documentary special thanks | |
| Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times | 2002 | Documentary special thanks | |
| Tragedy in the Holy Land: The Second Uprising | 2002 | Video documentary special thanks | |
| Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media | 1992 | Documentary special thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2plus2makes4 | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Kingdom of Survival | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| VERITA$: Everybody Loves Harvard | 2011 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Docs interdits | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Decadence: Decline of the Western World | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| Reflections on Media Ethics | 2011 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Programming the Nation? | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| Anima Mundi | 2011/II | Documentary | |
| Extraordinary Minds: Noam Chomsky | 2011 | Video | Himself |
| An Inconvenient Tax | 2011 | Documentary | Himself - Professor of Linguistics, MIT |
| Ethos | 2011/I | Documentary | Himself - Professor, MIT |
| Bhopali | 2011 | Documentary | |
| The Greatest Movie Ever Sold | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| Human Resources Documentary | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| I Am | 2010/III | Documentary | Himself |
| Psywar | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| Article 12 | 2010 | Documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
| ReGeneration | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| The University of Nuclear Bombs | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| Teenage Paparazzo | 2010 | Documentary | Himself / Contributer |
| Standing Army | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| Egghead | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| Selling God | 2009 | Documentary | Himself - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| The Money Fix | 2009 | Documentary | Activist |
| Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| Horizon | 2009 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein | 2009 | Documentary | |
| Journey Into America | 2009 | Documentary | Intellectual |
| Freeing Silvia Baraldini | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| Moderne slaveri | 2009 | Documentary | |
| Beyond Our Differences | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| Chomsky & Cie | 2008 | Documentary | Himself / Interviewee |
| L'encerclement - La démocratie dans les rets du néolibéralisme | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| Noam Chomsky on the World: The Chomsky Sessions | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Walking with Pasolini | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself, professor of linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| The Three Passions of Bertrand Russell | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Superpower | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| The World View of Noam Chomsky | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| One Giant Leap 2: What About Me? | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Free for All! | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| I Need That Record! The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| Split: A Divided America | 2008 | Documentary | |
| American Music: Off the Record | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War | 2008 | Documentary | Noam Chomsky |
| Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Beyond Borders: The Debate Over Human Migration | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
| La nit al dia | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| In Prison My Whole Life | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
| Manufacturing Dissent | 2007 | Documentary | Himself - Author, 'Manufacturing Consent' |
| Notes to Anarchism | 2006 | Short | Himself (voice) |
| The Trial of the St. Patrick's Four | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| Greasy Rider | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| Uprooted | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| Lake of Fire | 2006 | Documentary | Himself - Professor of Linguistics, MIT |
| The U.S. vs. John Lennon | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| Global Haywire | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| American Zeitgeist | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| Charlie Rose | 2003-2006 | TV Series | Himself - M.I.T. linguist, author of 'Failed States' / Himself |
| Independent Intervention | 2006 | Documentary | Himself - MIT Professor |
| Imperial Grand Strategy | 2006 | Video documentary | |
| Occupation 101 | 2006 | Documentary | |
| The Hour | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| Our Own Private Bin Laden | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Young Turks | 2005 | TV Series | Himself (2010) |
| Book TV | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
| De-Interlaced: Surviving the Mess Media | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Peace! DVD | 2005 | Video documentary | Himself |
| How to Start Your Own Country | 2005 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Internationally Speaking | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
| Aristide and the Endless Revolution | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
| Penn & Teller: Bullshit! | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Miracle Planet | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land | 2004 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Real Time with Bill Maher | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Dominance and Terror: A Discussion with Noam Chomsky | 2004 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| Rush to War | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| Preventive Warriors | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| Discordia | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| Noam Chomsky: Distorted Morality | 2003 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause | 2003 | Documentary | Himself |
| Hidden in Plain Sight | 2003 | Video documentary | Interviewee |
| The Corporation | 2003 | Documentary | Himself - Institute Professor, MIT |
| Third Party | 2003 | Documentary | Himself |
| A Voz da Ponta | 2003 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Stupidity | 2003 | Documentary | Himself |
| Brothers and Others | 2003 | Documentary | |
| Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure | 2003 | Documentary | Himself |
| XXI Century | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Political Analyst & Linguist, MIT |
| Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times | 2002 | Documentary | Himself |
| Conversations with History | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Whole Shebang | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Last Party 2000 | 2001 | Documentary | Himself |
| Rage Against the Machine: The Battle of Mexico City | 2001 | Video documentary | Himself (supplemental materials interview) |
| This Is What Democracy Looks Like | 2000 | Documentary | Himself |
| Zapatista | 1999 | Documentary | Himself |
| Public Enemy | 1999 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Myth of the Liberal Media | 1998 | Documentary | Himself |
| Avisa'ns quan arribi el 2000 | 1998 | TV Series | Himself |
| Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor | 1996 | Documentary | Himself - MIT |
| Everyman | 1996 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
| The Big Idea | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
| Bougainville: Another Colonial War | 1995 | Documentary | Himself |
| A Case Study: Cambodia and East Timor | 1994 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Noam Chomsky: Personal Influences | 1994 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The Revenge of the Dead Indians | 1993 | Documentary | Himself |
| Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media | 1992 | Documentary | Himself |
| Men of Ideas | 1978 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Shared Experience | 1977 | TV Short documentary | |
| Firing Line | 1969 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Dear America: The National Initiative | 2017 | Documentary post-production | Himself |
| Freedom Besieged | 2017 | Documentary filming | Himself |
| Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle | 2016 | Documentary filming | Himself |
| MisLead: America's Secret Epidemic | 2016 | Documentary post-production | Himself |
| The World Awaits | 2015 | Documentary completed | Himself |
| The Class Slipper: Middle Class Warfare in America | 2013 | Documentary post-production | |
| Back to Our Future | Documentary filming | Himself | |
| The Invisible Class | Documentary post-production | Himself | |
| Unsound | Documentary post-production | Himself | |
| All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | 2016 | Documentary | Himself - Professor Emeritus, MIT |
| Where Has All the Play Gone? | 2016 | Documentary short | Himself - Expert |
| Democracy Now! | 2002-2016 | TV Series | Himself |
| Notes to Eternity | 2016 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Occupation of the American Mind | 2016 | Video documentary | Himself |
| A Walk Through the Tenderloin: The Invisible Class | 2015 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The Divide | 2015/II | Documentary | Commentator |
| The Empire Files | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Shadow Nation | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| The National Security Forum | 2015 | Documentary | Himself - Panelist |
| Tavis Smiley | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| Can We Do It Ourselves? | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| The 986 Patent | 2015 | Documentary | Himself (rumored) |
| Requiem for the American Dream | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| Best of Enemies | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| Left Out: Beyond the Two-Party Horse Race | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| Grammar Revolution | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Click Online | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Philosopher & Linguist |
| The Weight of Chains 2 | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Rwanda: The Untold Story | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy's High Stakes | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Noam Chomsky, Prospects for Palestine: A Progressive Voice | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| America: Imagine the World Without Her | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| We Are Many | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Noam Chomsky, What Is Anarachism: A Progressive Voice | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Afers exteriors | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Joe Show | 2014/I | Documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
| Noam Chomsky, How to Ruin an Economy, Some Simple Ways: A Progressive Voice | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Breaking the Set | 2013 | TV Series | Himself - Professor / Philospher / Civil Rights (2013) |
| Sekai no eichi 6 nin ga kataru mirai e no teigen | 2013 | TV Mini-Series | Himself (as Nômu Chomusukî) |
| 3 hronia - 3 mnimonia: Piso ap' osa zisame | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Gold Fever | 2013 | Documentary | |
| Project Censored the Movie | 2013 | Documentary short | Himself - Author, Professor, Activist |
| Dead Man Working | 2013 | Himself | |
| Hit & Stay | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| Occupy: The Movie | 2013 | Documentary | |
| Women on the Front Line | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| 99% | 2012 | Short | Himself |
| Sternstunden | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Split: A Deeper Divide | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| The World Tomorrow | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Restiamo umani: The Reading Movie | 2012 | Himself | |
| Four Horsemen | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vincennes, l'université perdue | 2016 | Documentary | Himself |
| Democracy Now! | 2003-2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| Mes Chers Contemporain | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 50 Year Argument | 2014 | Documentary | Himself - Contributor |
| Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories | 2012 | TV Series | Himself - Activist |
| Do As I Say | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics | 2009 | Video documentary | Himself |
| La nit al dia | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Ever Again | 2006 | Documentary | Himself - Author |
| Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
Known for movies
L'encerclement - La démocratie dans les rets du néolibéralisme (2008)
as Himself
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
as Himself
Noam Chomsky: Distorted Morality (2003)
as Himself
Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause (2003)
as Himself