All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam ChomskyTags: apathy consumerism control complacency resignation learned-helplessness the-powers-that-be
If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.
Noam ChomskyLanguage 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.
Noam ChomskyThat is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.
Noam ChomskyTags: politics anarchy authority anarchism
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.
Noam ChomskyThe more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.
Noam ChomskyEducation is a system of imposed ignorance.
Noam ChomskyTags: education ignorance homeschooling public-education
The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.
Noam ChomskyWe need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.
Noam ChomskyAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise human science is at a loss.
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