Noam Chomsky Quotes

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

Politics, Freedom, Expression

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.
Noam Chomsky

Place, Decisions, Culture

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

Fear, Control, Mothers

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
Noam Chomsky

Business, Different, Two

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

Easy, Everybody, Stop

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.
Noam Chomsky

True, Saying, Same

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

Media, Admire, Obedience

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

History, Books, Bible

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

Violence, Against, Argument

If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
Noam Chomsky

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
Noam Chomsky

Time, Government, May

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

American, President, Laws

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

Live, Choose, Illusion

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Noam Chomsky

Freedom, Human, May

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

Power, Betray, Ashamed

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.
Noam Chomsky

Education, Best, Rich

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
Noam Chomsky

Public, Office, Matters

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

Democracy, State, Propaganda

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
Noam Chomsky

Good, Political, Everyone

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Noam Chomsky

Amazing, Long, Mars

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky

Thought, American, Often

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.
Noam Chomsky

Words, Free, Used

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
Noam Chomsky

Power, Fear, Hate

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Noam Chomsky

Powerful, Moral, Standards

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.
Noam Chomsky

Control, Through, Might

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Born: December 7, 1928

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