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Noam Chomsky

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This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.


— Noam Chomsky


#elections

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.


— Noam Chomsky


#elections

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....


— Noam Chomsky


#control

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.


— Noam Chomsky


#conflict

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


— Noam Chomsky


#bible

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.


— Noam Chomsky


#believe #despise #expression #freedom #freedom of expression

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.


— Noam Chomsky


#optimism #responsibility #responsibility

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.


— Noam Chomsky


#responsibility #stop-terrorism #terror #terrorism #terrorism

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.


— Noam Chomsky


#homeschooling #ignorance #public-education #education

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.


— Noam Chomsky


#awareness






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The couple had two daughters Aviva (b. True there are lots of other things I don't understand: the articles in the current issues of math and physics journals for example. Admittedly that may be my own limitation.

He has been described as a prominent cultural figure and he was voted the "world's top public intellectual" in a 2005 poll. Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7 1928) is an American linguist philosophercognitive scientist logicianhistorian political critic and activist. After the publication of his first books on linguistics Chomsky became a prominent critic of the Vietnam War and since then has continued to publish books of political criticism.

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