Noam Chomsky

Quotes

• “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are t...”
• “That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody'...”
• “Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other s...”
• “The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo...”
• “I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly fu...”
• “Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound...”
• “Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly fu...”
• “We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
• “Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”
• “I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”