Noam Chomsky: Information
Noam Chomsky (born 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and social critic. Widely regarded as the father of modern linguistics, Chomsky revolutionized the field with his theory of generative grammar and his ideas on universal grammar.
Beyond academia, Chomsky is renowned for his outspoken political activism and critical analysis of media, imperialism, and state power. Through decades of lectures, books, and interviews, Chomsky has inspired generations to question authority and defend freedom of thought and speech.
10 Best Noam Chomsky Quotes
- “The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”
- “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”
- “Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
- “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
- “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion.”
- “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.”
- “If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.”
- “The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
