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.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
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.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.
