Noam Chomsky Quotes
"See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.""As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.""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.""Here are some additional quotes by Noam Chomsky:""To some degree, it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.""The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control.""Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.""Either you repeat conventional doctrines without thought, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.""If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.""There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators, solidarity with the oppressed and their struggles everywhere.""Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. ""The bigger concern may be that now we have a rapidly growing economy and ample capital, but a failure of the government and society, to allocate it properly.""The task is to ensure that corporations and financial institutions have a healthy environment for investment and profit. ""The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.""The principle that property should be protected and instability reduced is right, but the specific policies need to be carefully crafted.""The so-called learning society can be a new weapon of cultural imperialism; but in its liberatory form, education is the indispensable basis for human development.""The only way to be responsibly is individually and collectively to make decisions for yourself, using your own intelligence and understanding. ""Reality is always neutral, it just is.""One of the most interesting and surprising developments in recent years has been the emergence of the global justice movements, or what is often referred to as anti-globalization movements.""People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know."