Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

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.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

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. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

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.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

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.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

The 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 Quote

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
- Noam Chomsky Quote

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
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