Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

American Linguist, Political Activist

Lived from: 1928 -

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 7 december 1928

  • The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - ''indoctrination,'' we might say - exercised through the mass media.
  • The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
  • I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
  • The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.
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  • A siege is an act of war.
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  • After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.
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  • Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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  • As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.
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  • As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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  • Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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  • Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.
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  • Control is the source of strategic power.
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  • I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
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  • I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.
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  • I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
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  • I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
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  • If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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  • If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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  • If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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  • It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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  • 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 free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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  • Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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What are the most famous quotes from Noam Chomsky?

The two most famous quotes from Noam Chomsky are:

  • "A siege is an act of war.
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  • "After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes."

When did Noam Chomsky live?

Noam Chomsky was born in 1928.