31 ordspråk av Avram Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky
"ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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.
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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.
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I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
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It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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.
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Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.
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