"If you want to scare people, you talk…" — Noam Chomsky

"If you want to scare people, you talk about evil."

— Noam Chomsky

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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky has 588 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel…
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans,…
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound…
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued -…

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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