Noam Chomsky Quotes, Thoughts and images

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.

The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

What's the point of being better than someone else?

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

The best defence against democracy is to distract people.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

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

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

To live a life of honesty and integrity is the responsibility of every decent person.

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.