"The search for truth is a cooperative, unending……" — Noam Chomsky
"The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles."
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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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No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against…
— Ayn Rand
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Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which…
— Ayn Rand
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The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we…
— David Boaz
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Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of…
— Ralph Raico
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When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State…
— Roderick T. Long
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Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired…
— John Holdren
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Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human…
— Errico Malatesta
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Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many…
— Walter Block
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No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men,…
— Leo Strauss
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