31 ordspråk av Avram Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky föddes den 7 december 1928
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

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.

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

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.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history

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.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

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

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

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

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

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.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

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