Noam Chomsky
  • The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

  • The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.