Noam Chomsky

"Silence in the face of injustice is complicity in the system."

"Media provides the framework within which we're allowed to think about events."

"Understanding how language works reveals how thought is being managed."

"The ruled always have more power than they believe until they act collectively."

"What seems like human nature is often just the nature of current arrangements."

"Children understand justice intuitively until they're taught to accept injustice."

"Language lets us transcend the immediate present and imagine other worlds."

"The powerful's fear of consciousness-raising reveals consciousness as a weapon."

"We mistake the map of reality created by media for reality itself."

"Systems rely on our belief that they're inevitable and unchangeable."

"Solidarity is dangerous because it reveals that our oppression is not individual."

"The first step in resistance is seeing clearly what actually is."

"Language evolution mirrors and enables changes in human understanding."

"Power depends on preventing us from imagining what we could collectively do."

"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and we intend to overcome it."

"Education is a system of imposed ignorance."

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

"Language is not a tool of communication; it's a tool of thought."

"What's most important is that we think independently."

"The concept of IQ is fundamentally flawed and used as a tool of oppression."

"We are responsible for the consequences of our actions, whether intended or not."

"The state is not concerned with justice; it's concerned with control."

"Media manipulation is the essence of modern democracies."

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

"The principle of universality requires that we judge ourselves by the same standards we judge others."

"Manufacturing consent is how systems of power maintain themselves."

"Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind."

"Language shapes how we think about reality."

"True education involves learning to question authority."

"The wealthy use language to obscure rather than illuminate."