Noam Chomsky Quotes About Criticism

• 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 - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Smart, Thinking, Views

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

• Expressing criticism of society is not being a grouch.

  Noam Chomsky

  Criticism, Grouches

  "Ezra Levant Interviewed Noam Chomsky and They Disagreed On Pretty Much Everything" by Chris Bilton |, www.vice.com. March 10 2015.

• There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Criticism, Body, Information

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.67, Pantheon

• The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean, we are the ones that ought to be organizing them, not Rush Limbaugh. There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi Germany.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Self, Historical

  Source: www.iww.org

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