Noam Chomsky Famous Quotes
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever."
"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way."
"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy."
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."
"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past."
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."
Noam Chomsky Quotations
"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve."
Edgar Allan Poe
Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.
Anon
"In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions know that you are alone in the world."
Henry David Thoreau
"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good."
Joe Paterno
"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us."
David Sarnoff
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
Maya Angelou
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
Not every age is fit for childish sports.
Titus Maccius Plautus