Quotes from Noam Chomsky

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

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

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

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

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

the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

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 side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.