Quotes by Noam Chomsky

According to the standards of the Nuremburg Trials, every American president since World War II could be convicted as a war criminal and hung. (Noam Chomsky)

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. (Noam Chomsky)

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. (Noam Chomsky)

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. (Noam Chomsky)

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. (Noam Chomsky)

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. (Noam Chomsky)

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. (Noam Chomsky)

Experience becomes possible because of language. (Noam Chomsky)

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. (Noam Chomsky)

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. (Noam Chomsky)