All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. Cannot Control
- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. Ashamed
- Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. Anarchy
- If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to… Archives
- Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is… Creation
- If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. Ago
- 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… Best
- Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice. Choice
- Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything. Any
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. Catastrophe
- The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised… Among
- The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. Computers
- There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control. Control
- Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. Americanism
- When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it… Britain
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Colorless
- I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. Accumulate
- The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven… Bible
- Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. Art
- Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. Analogue