25 phrases by Noam Chomsky to understand this thinker

Within each and every one, there is a treasure, which must be studied.

A basic tenet of the modern capitalist state is that costs and risks are socialized as much as possible, while profit is privatized.

The problem with true democracies is that they can make their rulers fall into the heresy of responding to the needs of their own people rather than those of US investors.

If we want, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

If you assume there is no hope, then you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct towards freedom, then there are opportunities to change things.

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

The press can do more damage than the atomic bomb. And leave scars on the brain.

You cannot control your own people by force, but you can distract them with consumerism.

Maintain good relations with the right officials and they will overthrow the government for you.

Literature gives people much deeper insight than any other science can.

Freedom without opportunity is a diabolical gift, and refusing to give those opportunities is a crime.

You will never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

In case after case, we see that conformism is the easy way, and the way to privilege and prestige; dissent carries personal costs.

The purpose of education is to show people how to learn for themselves. The other concept of education is indoctrination.

The press can do more damage than the atomic bomb. And leave scars on the brain.

⁠The general population doesn’t know what’s going on, and they don’t even know they don’t know.

Control outside of work means turning people into automatons in all aspects of their lives, inducing a ‘philosophy of futility’ that steers them towards ‘the superficial things in life like consuming fashion’.

Censorship never ends for those who have experienced it. It is a mark in the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered. It’s forever.

People pay for their own subordination.

The basic idea running through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public should be marginalized. The general public is seen only as ignorant and ignorant interferences, like misguided cattle.

Contempt for democracy is the dream of neoliberals.

We shouldn’t look for heroes, we should look for good ideas.

The picture of the world that is presented to people has absolutely no relation to reality, as the truth about every subject is buried under mountains of lies.