Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate December 7, 1928

Zodiac Sagittarius

Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Country United States of America

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Education is imposed ignorance.

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Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

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See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

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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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I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

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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.

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That 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.

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