Noam Chomsky, a linguist, philosopher, and social critic, delivers thought-provoking quotes on politics, society, and human nature. His words challenge authority, advocating for critical thinking, and emphasizing the responsibility of individuals in shaping a just society. Chomsky’s quotes critique power structures, champion free speech, and highlight the importance of questioning prevailing narratives. He encourages active engagement, urging people to seek truth, challenge injustice, and cultivate a society based on compassion, equality, and collective responsibility.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
The more you can keep people passive, obedient, and diverted with consumerism or highly marginalized, the better off you are.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Noam Chomsky Quotes in English
The more you can control information, the more you can control people.
The more you institutionalize people, the more efficient you are.
The more you can make people focus on isolated incidents of terror and violence, the more you can keep them afraid and keep them from paying attention to acts of corporate plunder.
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.
There’s a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
The more you can keep people passive, obedient, and diverted with consumerism or highly marginalized, the better off you are.
It’s not about making money; it’s about taking money.
You can’t educate people if they’re not free to inquire and to innovate and to create.
The more you institutionalize people, the more efficient you are.
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.
People are capable of thinking for themselves. If they’re given the chance to do so, they will.
The more you can make people focus on isolated incidents of terror and violence, the more you can keep them afraid and keep them from paying attention to acts of corporate plunder.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
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.
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
It’s not about making money; it’s about taking money.
The more you can make people feel helpless, the more you can force them to turn to others who claim to have the answers.
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
The more you institutionalize people, the more efficient you are.
We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
The more you can make people focus on isolated incidents of terror and violence, the more you can keep them afraid and keep them from paying attention to acts of corporate plunder.
What is called democracy and the free market is neither.
The more you can make people feel helpless, the more you can force them to turn to others who claim to have the answers.
You don’t have to be a highly trained philosopher to understand that if the rich and powerful gain control over the mainstream media, they have won.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
The more you can make people feel helpless, the more you can force them to turn to others who claim to have the answers.
We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
The more you can make people feel helpless, the more you can force them to turn to others who claim to have the answers.
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
It’s not about making money; it’s about taking money.
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
It’s not about making money; it’s about taking money.
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
It’s not about making money; it’s about taking money.
The more you can make people feel helpless, the more you can force them to turn to others who claim to have the answers.
Noam Chomsky Lines
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
It’s not about making money; it’s about taking money.
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
It’s not about making money; it’s about taking money.
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
The more you can keep people silent, the more you can control them.
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.
One of the consequences of a market-driven society is that the public is left alone to gaze at television, a privatized activity that sits in people’s homes.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
It is quite possible – overwhelmingly probable, one might guess – that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
The more you can make people feel that they are at the mercy of forces over which they have no control, the more you can make them passive.
Resistance is never easy, but it can be done, and done with dignity, heroically.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
Human intelligence has limits, but stupidity does not.
If you’re not turned onto politics, politics will turn on you.
People are entitled to feel that their lives are meaningful, that the world is just, and that their personal and social relations are reasonably rewarding.
The more you can control information, the more you can control people.
It’s pretty hard to find ways to maintain control over people if you’re always telling them the truth.
You don’t have to be a highly trained philosopher to understand that if the rich and powerful gain control over the mainstream media, they have won.
If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.
If we are not passive consumers, we are in danger, and that’s the standard view of democracy. The public are a dangerous enemy and must therefore be kept under control.
The more you can keep people passive, obedient, and diverted with consumerism or highly marginalized, the better off you are.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
The more you can make people feel helpless, the more you can force them to turn to others who claim to have the answers.
If you’re not turned onto politics, politics will turn on you.
The more you can make people feel helpless, the more you can force them to turn to others who claim to have the answers.
You don’t have to be a highly trained philosopher to understand that if the rich and powerful gain control over the mainstream media, they have won.
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own.
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
