Quotes from Noam Chomsky:
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.