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

Inspiring Quotes

Here are some inspiring,hilarious,philosophical musings for you and your mother(and well hell throw the grandmother in there too!). Enjoy!

"I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your fuckin' mouth."- Bill Hicks

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

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot"- John Lennon

"People say crazy shit during sex. One time I called this girl 'Mom.'"- Randal Graves

"For every prohibition you create you also create an underground."- Jello Biafra

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."- Mohandas Gandhi

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it"- Malcolm X

"Avoid all needle drugs,the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon."-Abbie Hoffman

"Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid." - Chuck D.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."- Hunter S. Thompson

"My mother answers all my fan mail"- Patti Smith

"I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do."- Kim Gordon

"Think for yourself and question authority."- Timothy Leary(my all time favorite quote!)


"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."- Voltaire

"Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money."- Robin Williams