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Best Noam Chomsky Quotes

A list of the best Noam Chomsky quotes. List is arranged by which ones are the most f amous Noam Chomsky quotes and which have proven the most popular with visitors to this page. All the top quotes f rom Noam Chomsky should be listed here, but if any were missed you can add more quotes by Noam Chomsky at the end of the list. T his list includes notable Noam Chomsky quotes on various subjects; if you are looking f or subject-specif ic quotes, those can also be f ound on Ranekr. Vote on the f ollowing Noam Chomsky quotations list so that only the greatest quotes rise to the top, as the order of the list changes dynamically based on votes. Don't let your f avorite Noam Chomsky sayings get to the bottom of the list! T his list contains items like I have of ten thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. and Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity f or f reely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be f ree f rom the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants def ending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon f rom a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish f reedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.. Rank Name 1. 1 Up 4 Down 0 I have of ten thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. Noam Chomsky 2. 2 Up 0 Down 0 Language is a process of f ree creation; its laws and principles are f ixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is f ree and inf initely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of f ree creation. Noam Chomsky 3. 3 Up 2 Down 0 T he United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control -- indoctrination, we might say -- exercised through the mass media. Noam Chomsky

4. 4 Up 0 Down 0 Resistance is f easible even f or those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, f or those who f ear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. Noam Chomsky 5. 5 Up 1 Down 0 Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a f act that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. Noam Chomsky 6. 6 Up 1 Down 0 T he principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerf ul. Noam Chomsky 7. 7 Up 0 Down 0 T he people who were honored in the Bible were the f alse prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on. Noam Chomsky 8. 8 Up 0 Down 1 T he only justif ication f or repressive institutions is material and cultural def icit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a def icit, and even threaten human survival. Noam Chomsky 9. 9 Up 2

Down 1 Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and f ostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a f it system f or the mid-twentieth century. Noam Chomsky 10. 10 Up 0 Down 0 Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity f or f reely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be f ree f rom the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants def ending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon f rom a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish f reedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion. Noam Chomsky 11. 11 Up 0 Down 0 T he consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look f orward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite f orce acting in the name of the proletariat. Some sort of council communism is the natural f orm of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It ref lects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any f orm of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a vanguard party, or a State bureaucracy. Noam Chomsky 12. 12 Up 2 Down 1 We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various f orms of pathology. Noam Chomsky 13. 13 Up 0 Down 0 T he basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. T he general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.

Noam Chomsky 14. 14 Up 1 Down 0 If we don't believe in f reedom of expression f or people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky 15. 15 Up 0 Down 0 T he intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself . Noam Chomsky