Famous Quotes / Noam Chomsky
35 Quotations by Noam Chomsky
- 21. The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has ...
- 22. The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not on ...
- 23. The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of ...
- 24. The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such instit ...
- 25. The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophe ...
- 26. The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... ...
- 27. The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of his ...
- 28. The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable op ...
- 29. The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.
- 30. The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideol ...
- 31. Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who b ...
- 32. Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privile ...
- 33. We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not corresp ...
- 34. We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won' ...
- 35. What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power ...