Noam Chomsky

If you decide not to make use of the opportunities you have, not to live your life in a way that’s constructive and helpful, you end up looking back and asking, ‘why did I bother living?

Noam Chomsky

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.

Noam Chomsky

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn’t make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

Noam Chomsky

It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.

Noam Chomsky

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

Noam Chomsky

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Noam Chomsky

The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You’re educated to pass tests and not to understand.

Noam Chomsky

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

Noam Chomsky

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Noam Chomsky

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

Noam Chomsky