Noam Chomsky Quotes & Sayings (Page 11)

“If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.”

“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.”

“Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.”

“Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.”

“If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.”

“There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.”

“Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.”

“When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.”

“The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate.”

“In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.”