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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky
Freedom
,
Politics
,
Believe
I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
Noam Chomsky
Work
,
Weather
,
Cold Weather
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
Noam Chomsky
Life
,
Business
,
Credit
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
,
Generation
,
Language
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Noam Chomsky
Sleep
,
Ideas
,
Green
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
Noam Chomsky
Power
,
Political
,
Wealth
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Noam Chomsky
War
,
Environmental
,
Survival
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam Chomsky
Live
,
World
,
Choose
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
Noam Chomsky
Mirror
,
People
,
Construction
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
Noam Chomsky
Easy
,
Terrorism
,
Way
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.
Noam Chomsky
World
,
Healthcare
,
System
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Noam Chomsky
Today
,
Years
,
You
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
Noam Chomsky
Progress
,
Changes
,
Gifts
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
Noam Chomsky
Control
,
You
,
Distracted
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
Noam Chomsky
Nationalism
,
Way
,
Others
International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
Noam Chomsky
Money
,
Small
,
Important
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
,
Propaganda
Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.
Noam Chomsky
Food
,
People
,
Care
Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
Noam Chomsky
Power
,
Society
,
Free
When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
Noam Chomsky
Politician
,
Deceit
,
Word
There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
Noam Chomsky
Anger
,
Government
,
World
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.
Noam Chomsky
Injustice
,
Socialism
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
Noam Chomsky
Assumptions
,
Discussion
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
Fear
,
Power
,
Hate
Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.
Noam Chomsky
Japan
,
Pearl Harbor
,
Example
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
Noam Chomsky
Violence
,
Never
,
Argument
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