Chomsky, Noam

"Art matters because it reveals what prose cannot."

"The goal is not to win, but to build something better."

"The task of the intellectual is to speak the truth and expose lies."

"Education is a system of imposed ignorance."

"What's happened is a coup. It's not a new phenomenon in the world, but it is the first time it has happened in the United States."

"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know."

"The fact that propaganda is often successful doesn't make it less propaganda."

"Language is not simply a tool for communication. It shapes our understanding of reality."

"We are living in an age of manufactured consent."

"Science is a way of thinking about the world, not a list of facts."

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

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"Power is concentrated in very few hands."

"Human beings are not machines. We cannot be engineered by experts."

"Democracy requires an informed citizenry."

"The more free you are, the more responsible you become for your own existence."

"Children are natural scientists; we teach them to stop asking questions."

"Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."

"The purpose of law is to prevent the weak from rebelling against the strong."

"We live in a system of institutionalized deception."

"Grammar is a system that allows infinite expression with finite means."

"The best way to control people is to control what they think about."

"Historical ignorance is not accidental."

"War is a choice made by those with power."

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."

"The measure of a civilization is how it treats its most vulnerable members."

"Change comes from organizing and collective action."

"We are all responsible for the systems we participate in."

"The wealthy maintain power through manufactured consent and illusion."

"Language provides the categories through which we understand the world."