More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.
Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.
