The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Younger people who are being indoctrinated into the contemporary system of falsification - they really have to do some research to find… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the West, you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I think [the scientific method is] the only method we have to try to get some approximate understanding of the world. I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Israelis like to believe, and tell the world, that they were running an “enlightened” or “benign” occupation, qualitatively different from other military… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“media are independent and committed to discovering and reporting the truth, and that they do not merely reflect the world as powerful… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You've just got to get people organized and tell them the truth. There aren't any magic tricks to it. You know, sometimes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The long tradition of naiveté and self-righteousness that disfigures our intellectual history, however, must serve as a warning to the third world,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The term physical is just kinda like an honorific word, kinda like the word 'real' when we say 'the real truth'. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“المثقف من حمل الحقيقة في وجه القوة ('cultured from carrying the truth in the face of power')” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
![“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors [...] I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey' stuff, she was right, there was nothing there. And it was understood by the…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c77/noam-chomsky-42_chomsky_i-personally-never-expected-anything-of_949949.jpg)
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