Noam Chomsky
American · 1928–
American linguist, philosopher, and political activist, often called the father of modern linguistics.
Wikipedia ↗“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.”
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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.”
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“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”
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“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on — because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
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“The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.”
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