The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Noam Chomsky

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

Noam Chomsky

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

Noam Chomsky

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

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.

Noam Chomsky

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Noam Chomsky

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

Noam Chomsky

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Noam Chomsky

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

Noam Chomsky

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.

Noam Chomsky

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 world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Noam Chomsky