Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, hi...
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know. Noam Chomsky
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence. Noam Chomsky
See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it. Noam Chomsky
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. Noam Chomsky
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas. Noam Chomsky
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. Noam Chomsky
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. Noam Chomsky
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. Noam Chomsky
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore. Noam Chomsky
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. Noam Chomsky
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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.... Noam Chomsky
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....
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. Noam Chomsky
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
