Noam Chomsky

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so.

Noam Chomsky

As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.

Noam Chomsky

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, and diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.

Noam Chomsky

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

Noam Chomsky

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Noam Chomsky

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

Noam Chomsky

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Noam Chomsky

Democratic societies can’t force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Noam Chomsky