Famous Chomsky Quotes

Here are some great quotations from the "most important intellectual alive," Noam Chomsky:
"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."

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."

"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."

"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."

"Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world"

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."

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

"Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony"

"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history"

"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media"

"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists"

"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it"

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

The last one is for Holly, lol. All quotes were taken from: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/n/noam_chomsky.html