"Goebbels was in favor of free speech for……" — Noam Chomsky
"Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech."
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Noam Chomsky
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel…
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In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans,…
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound…
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued -…
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
— Marcus Aurelius
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James A. Baldwin
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the…
— Annie Besant
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Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is…
— John O. Brennan
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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be…
— Alton Brown
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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size…
— Julie Burchill
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Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic…
— Julie Burchill
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
— Noam Chomsky
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I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely…
— Howard Stern
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of…
— William Cowper
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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