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There are 31 quotes for the author Noam Chomsky

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Subject: Science

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

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