Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

American Linguist, Political Activist

Lived from: 1928 -

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 7 december 1928

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  • On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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  • Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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  • Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
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  • Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.
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  • The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
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  • 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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  • The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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  • The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
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  • The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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  • The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.
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  • The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.
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  • The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
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  • 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 into the desert, and so on.
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  • 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.
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  • The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.
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  • 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.
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  • There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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  • Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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  • We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.
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