Noam Chomsky quotes

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

Belief

Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's really an easy way: Stop participating …Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Responsibility Humor

Education is a system of imposed …Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Ignorance Short Education

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can …Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

Responsibility Future Possibility

For the powerful, crimes are those that others …For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Power Short Politics

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about …Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

Education Change Freedom Thought

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable …The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum

Acceptance Control People Opinion

I was never aware of any other option but to question …I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.

Philosophy Short Question

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure …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.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something …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.

Idea Truth

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's …It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Short

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the …That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

Politics



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See, people with power understand exactly one thing: …See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

Short Power Understanding People

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get …That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.