1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

Education is imposed ignorance.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.

The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and create, live their lives freely within institutions they control, and with limited hierarchical structures, possibly none at all